IN mediæval days, when ecclesiasticism ruled, there were venturesome spirits who held that there might be truth without dogma. They sought to discover from the literature and life of Greece and Rome ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Poets for Science Gathering this fall at Kent State is something of a cross between an academic conference and a festival ...

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 ...

Charlotte R. Rediker ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Lowell House. Everybody knows about Mark Zuckerberg's journey from Harvard dorm room to Silicon Valley titan.

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 ...

Humanities and social sciences appear to be declining in the current education ecosystem because the meaning of “education” ...