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[Marcel Odenbach, “You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees”] The encyclopedia is sponsored by the Protestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (FEST) in Heidelberg. FEST’s mission emphasizes “sustainable development [and] religion and culture,” and “dialogue between theology and the social sciences,…
On all these shores there are echoes of past and future: of the flow of time, obliterating yet containing all that has gone before; of the sea’s eternal rhythms — the tides, the beat of surf, the pressing rivers of…
Apple This story is part of Apple Event, our full coverage of the latest news from Apple headquarters. One of the biggest updates comes to FaceTime, Apple’s app for video and audio calls. Over the past year, many of us…
The authors note that “diversity and excellence are not divergent aims… diversity is a component of excellence,” and also add that “managing underrepresentation in philosophy will help with philosophy’s relevance at a time when the value of the humanities is…
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life. James Baldwin (August…
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“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat” the secessionists “in the language they understand,” Buhari’s removed tweet said, according to Reuters, which noted that a million people were killed in the…
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Madeline Martin-Seaver, a philosophy post-doc at Auburn University, has created a new site that lists “alt-ac” job openings that would be appropriate for people with graduate degrees in the humanities and social sciences. She says, “I hope you’ll look through them…
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It’s not unusual for elephants to ramble outside their habitats, but this wandering herd stands out. Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, a principal investigator at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, who specializes in elephants, told The New York Times he has “no idea” why these…