Literature’s Power to Effect Social Justice Today – The Case of Flint
FLINT, Mich. â The play was written in 1882, originally set in a small town in Norway â about as removed as imaginable from the daily struggles of this Michigan…
Why Success Depends on Your Ability to Tell Stories
“Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are both known for their seemingly mystical power to distort reality. What gives them this ability isn’t a quirk of a charismatic leader; it’s a…
Connecting in Urban Green Spaces in the Capitals of Cambodia and Thailand
As I begin my second trip to Southeast Asia, after spending a year living in upstate NYâsurrounded by mountains and treesâarriving in Bangkok was extremely discouraging to an environmentalist. Bangkok, Thailand has developed rapidly with little efforts towards…
Engineering Can Learn From the Humanities
We can learn from the humanities, which develop original thinking skills much earlier. Creative domains from writing to the arts emphasize the âdoingâ and âcreatingâ components, rather than just absorbing…
Mellon Puts Humanities in Close Touch With Urban Studies
The planet is becoming more urban every day. Yet scholars in two academic domains that have lots to say about city life, humanities departments and architecture schools, rarely talk to…
Why Engineers need the Arts & Humanities
In an article titled “Embedding the Humanities in Engineering” Erik Fisher and Roop Mahajan, a humanist and an engineer by trade, developed what they called “interdisciplinary trading zones” through which they sought to integrate the divergent perspectives [and]…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
Pursuing a New Perspective in Medicine
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table