Science and the humanities

Science in color: visualizing achromatic knowledge

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Color makes its way into natural science images as early as the research process. It serves for self-reflection and for communication within the scientific community. However, color does not follow a standard in the natural sciences: its meaning is contingent, even though cultur…

Science in color: visualizing achromatic knowledge

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Color makes its way into natural science images as early as the research process. It serves for self-reflection and for communication within the scientific community. However, color does not follow a standard in the natural sciences: its meaning is contingent, even though cultur…

Blow Up the Humanities

by Miller, Toby

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A short, sharp, and provocative book, Blow Up the Humanities has esteemed scholar Toby Miller declaring that there are two humanities in the United States. One is the venerable, powerful humanities of private universities; the other is the humanities of state schools, which focu…

Blow up the humanities

by Miller, Toby

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"A short, sharp, and provocative book, Blow Up the Humanities has esteemed scholar Toby Miller declaring that there are two humanities in the United States. One is the venerable, powerful humanities of private universities; the other is the humanities of state schools, which foc…

Blow up the humanities

by Miller, Toby

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"A short, sharp, and provocative book, Blow Up the Humanities has esteemed scholar Toby Miller declaring that there are two humanities in the United States. One is the venerable, powerful humanities of private universities; the other is the humanities of state schools, which foc…

The Internet revolution in the sciences and humanities

by Gross, Alan G., Harmon, Joseph E.

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The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities takes a new look at C.P. Snow's distinction between the two cultures, a distinction that provides the driving force for a book that contends that the Internet revolution has sown the seeds for transformative changes in both …

The Internet revolution in the sciences and humanities

by Gross, Alan G., Harmon, Joseph E.

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Considers Internet innovation in both the sciences and humanities Proposes a program that exemplifies two paradoxes: a revolutionary program that champions evolutionary change and a program for institutional change that stays well within the powers and prerogatives colleges and …

The Internet revolution in the sciences and humanities

by Gross, Alan G., Harmon, Joseph E.

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In The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon capture and analyze the work of a small army of innovative scholars and scientists, all of whom have exploited the opportunities the Internet affords, to share with colleagues claims to…

The two cultures

by Collini, Stefan, Snow, C. P.,, (Charles Percy)

fromCanto classics

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The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C.P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to p…