Tag: humanities and social sciences
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What medieval cosmology tells us about the value of Arts and Humanities in universities
Here is a really interesting post on medieval cosmology : Cosmology: Unearthing a 13th-century metaverse | The Economist. which shows that really, the two sides of modern universities cant work in Iisolation. In essence the project which is reported took the work of a 13C philosopher and applied modern mathematical concepts. What they found was rather…
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What have the Romans, sorry Researchers, ever done for us?
Another day another paean to applied science… well, a thinly disguised call for more money to go to engineering. Coz, they make stuff y’know, not like basic researchers or heaven help us AHSS (arts, humanities and social sciences) dabblers. After all, what have the romans, sorry, researchers ever given society…This applied-basic dichotomy (and shouldn’t it…