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Why Humanities
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 ...
filipinafaith- Length: 7:06
- Views: 2841
- Tags: humanities virtuous to be human creatively critically why humanities
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So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities
A bright motivated undergrad decides to ask her professor for a recommendation to graduate school.
- minniemouse1224
- Length: 4:37
- Views: 649502
- Tags: xtranormal
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In Defense of Humanities
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 ...
- stanforduniversity
- Length: 6:16
- Views: 9505
- Tags: humanities education career literature philosophy
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Bill Gates on the Humanities
Bill Gates discusses the role of the humanities in solving global problems.
- harvard
- Length: 1:03
- Views: 9415
- Tags: bill gates microsoft harvard university humanities
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Research Without Borders: Defining the Digital Humanities April 6, 2011
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 sys...
- columbiauniversity
- Length: 110:23
- Views: 1247
- Tags: education columbia
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Risk and Humanities
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 p...
- cambridgeuniversity
- Length: 67:29
- Views: 4826
- Tags: risk
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Science and the Humanities: Still "Two Cultures"?
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 ne...
Digital Humanities Sampler, Part 1
Part 1 of four videos showing pilot projects at the cutting edge of research in digital humanities. Recorded at the National Endowment for the Humanities in September 2010, at a meeting of project managers who received start-up grants from NEH's Office of Digital Humanities. These are the individ...
Quit Your Technology Job and Get a Humanities Ph.D.
(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 towar...
Digital Humanities Sampler, Part 2
Part 2 of four videos showing pilot projects at the cutting edge of research in digital humanities. Recorded at the National Endowment for the Humanities in September 2010, at a meeting of project managers who received start-up grants from NEH's Office of Digital Humanities. These are the individ...
- nehgov
- Length: 27:18
- Views: 3199
- Tags: digital humanities digital humanities NEH National Endowment lightning ODH Office of Digital Humanities
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What is Humanities? (remake)
for humanities :) *opening and closing vid credits to golshanirad
- claire123wu
- Length: 2:53
- Views: 132
- Tags: what is humanities
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Why Study Humanities in 60 Seconds
Michael Elliott (Professor of English and American Studies, Emory College) has one minute to explain the importance of the humanities. See what Emory is doing in the humanities at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (chi.emory.edu For more information on Professor Elliott, see en...
EO Wilson: Synergism Between Science and the Humanities
Scientist and author Edward O. Wilson, draws on studies from a broad spectrum of disciplines to show how various fields of inquiry, and especially the humanities and sciences, intersect with each other. According to Wilson, "the greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be t...
- uctelevision
- Length: 58:48
- Views: 5752
- Tags: science humanities EO Wilson
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