While many scientists value and are strongly interested in literature, music, and art - what are commonly called "the humanities" - they believe that the status of these disciplines is completely ...

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum firmly believes that science and the humanities can work in concert to help people better understand the world. His own research on birds as aesthetic agents inspired ...

How the humanities can enrich scientific discourse, challenge the limitations of scientism and foster a holistic approach to understanding the natural world and our place in it. That COVID-19 took a ...

The two-fold aim of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University is (i) to study and promote human flourishing, and (ii) to develop and implement systematic approaches to the synthesis of ...

Remember the story about the elephant seen from different perspectives? Here’s a twist. A biologist with a telescope peered at the animal and said, I see a hairy grayness horizon to horizon. A toenail ...

We have Hum, not “poetry for physicists”; why, then, do we have “physics for poets”? There’s a flaw in the Core; a tear in the otherwise flawless ozone layer that surrounds the College. I first ...

Present at the launch of the Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities at NUS today were (from left to right) CSSH Deputy Director Assoc Prof Dandan Qiao from NUS School of Computing; ...