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Why Humanities

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Humanities is important because it - teaches us what it means to be human -teaches us about the world we live in -to think creatively and critically - to be virtuous For some reason unfort. when I uploaded the video towards the end a bit of pictures didn't seem to upload or my video had a glitch...

So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities

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A bright motivated undergrad decides to ask her professor for a recommendation to graduate school.

In Defense of Humanities

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• Author: StanfordUniversity

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As universities across the country question the need for humanities education, John Landy, co-director of Stanford's Philosophy and Literature Initiative comes to the defense of literature. "Spending time in the presence of works of great beauty can powerfully change your life," he says. Related...

What Are The Humanities?

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Bill Gates on the Humanities

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Bill Gates discusses the role of the humanities in solving global problems.

What are the humanities

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Research Without Borders: Defining the Digital Humanities April 6, 2011

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Digital humanities scholars are a diverse group whose work is the result of cross-pollination among humanities scholarship, computer science, and digital media. Many well-known digital humanities projects apply tools borrowed from computer science—such as data-mining or geographic information...

Risk and Humanities

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Darwin College Lecture Series 2010. "Risk and Humanities". Professor Mary Beard (Cambridge). Was there risk before modernity? This lecture explores how we might tell the ancient history of risk—from oracles (an ancient form of risk assessment) through gambling and agricultural strategies to the...

Quit Your Technology Job and Get a Humanities Ph.D.

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(May 11, 2011) Dr. Damon Horowitz is a philosopher and entrepreneur, exploring what is possible at the intersection of technology and the humanities. He discusses the value of a humanities Ph.D. in a world that is being continuously inundated with new technology, and how to apply the degree...

Science and the Humanities: Still "Two Cultures"?

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Complete video at: fora.tv Reflecting on his stint at Caltech, novelist Ian McEwan argues that while math and science majors are often well-read, humanities students tend to know little about the sciences. "They know our stuff, but we don't know their stuff," says McEwan. ----- In Ian McEwan's...