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The Value of Stochastic Thinking
April 21, 2023
How ideas about randomness, chance, uncertainty and probability are radically reshaping the humanities and the social and physical sciences.
The Radical Reinvention of the English Language
April 20, 2023
Neologisms, slang, jargon, acronyms and loanwords are reshaping the language right before our eyes.
Let’s Give Our Regards to Broadway
April 19, 2023
It’s a mistake to confine the American musical theater to drama departments.
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Critical Infrastructure
April 17, 2023
The political economy of power grids, mass transit and affordable housing, and the implications for higher education.
Raising Consciousness
April 4, 2023
Bridging the divide between humanistic and neurobiological and neuropsychological understandings of consciousness.
Gen Ed: Its Past, Present and Possible Future
April 2, 2023
Moving beyond today’s smorgasbord of disconnected courses.