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Yet another example of the incredible insights into visual material that can come from specialists in other fields. In this case a Queens University Classics professor emeritus, Dr. Ross Kilpatrick, has suggested that the enigmatic barren background of the iconic da...
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Plenty. If I had to summarize the essence of the Art of Counting mission and philosophy in 5 words, it would be this: Let the data lead you. With enough data pointing in the same direction, I’d take on Zahi Hawass in a televised debate, in the (unlikely) event that...
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Another awesome collaborative effort, this time combining a group of specialists ranging from museology to space science. Led by the University of Leicester, this innovative Heritage Science project draws together space scientists, art-historians, archaeologists and...
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Embrace the technology! This NY Times article highlights a number of humanities projects that are focusing on using quantifiably analyzed data as the centerpiece of their research. The next big idea in language, history and the arts? Data. Members of a new generation...
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A collaborative effort by military scientists and entomologists has uncovered the reason(s) behind the mysterious and troubling disappearance of honeybee colonies. Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States alone have suffered “colony...
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Another example of the immense benefits brought by collaboration between specialists of different fields, in this case classical philologists, mathematical historians, and expert surveyors. A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped...
