Science needs the humanities (Edward Giuliano, Washington Post)
The President of the New York Institute of Technology explains why the humanities are vital for scientific and medical inquiry.
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02, 2016
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02, 2016
Henry VIII’s football malady
Henry VIII may have been knocked in the head, according to an expert in cognitive neurology.
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01, 2016
The Two Cultures of Scientists and Non-Scientists
In fact, the separation between the scientists and non-scientists is much less bridgeable among the young than it was even thirty years ago. Thirty years ago the cultures had long ceased to speak to each other: but at least they managed a kind of frozen smile across the gulf. Now the politeness has gone, and [...]
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01, 2016
Medicine, neurology, and Sherlock (BBC)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the doctor from Edinburgh, teaches new doctors about the mind.
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01, 2016
Looking Both Ways
Looking toward the past, and the future, on New Year's Day
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12, 2015
Joseph Conrad’s Terrorist
The stoicism of his thought could not be disturbed by this or any other failure. Next time, or the time after next, a telling stroke would be delivered – something really startling – a blow fit to open the first crack in the imposing front of the great edifice of legal conceptions sheltering the atrocious [...]
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11, 2015
STEM talks
Grundlos: Watch out, you almost ran me over! Where are you rushing off to? Magnus: I'm off to give a talk and I'm in a hurry. Grundlos: What is the talk about? You're not very dressed up. Magnus: Look, that's not necessary. It's about the meaning of STEM. Grundlos: What is STEM? Magnus: Don't you [...]
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11, 2015
The Humanities must unite or die
Humanities folks need to hang together or ....
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11, 2015
Language and the sciences
How language lends itself to the sciences.