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"During the past decade, politics has intruded on daily American life more than at any time since the 1960s; in the same period, technology has given a microphone or printing press to anyone with an internet connection. The result is the feeling that everyone should say something whenever anything happens." - The Atlantic

Redesigning assignments to force students to go back and critique, fact-check, and evaluate AI tools may also give them pause the next time they use them. - Hyperallergic

Except for a few special cases, logic can’t tell you whether the premises or conclusion of an argument are true. - Aeon

In ordinary conversation, social media, and even mass-media and academic publications it has now become routine to come across the claim that such and such a person, idea, word or other thing is ‘problematic’. - 3 Quarks Daily

It suggests that the influence that stereotypes can have on spontaneous impressions may not be as strong as previously thought, at least not when people are evaluating unambiguous behaviour. - Psyche

More real for the humanities than any “crisis” within is that they, along with the universities that house them, are repeatedly subject to and undermined by attacks from the outside. Universities generally, and the humanities more particularly, have long been a political football. - Prospect

In one, painted by the male elite, Rome under the emperor becomes a nightmare vision of a world turned topsy-turvy. In the other, articulated by the tombstones of cooks and tasters and wet-nurses, imperial structures provided opportunities for new hierarchies, and new avenues to distinction, to develop. - Washington Post

Loneliness, it seems, is an existential hazard, something to which human beings are always vulnerable – and not just when they are alone. - Aeon

Guided by connectomic and other data to optimize thousands or even billions of parameters, machine-learning models could be trained to produce neural-network behaviour that is consistent with the behaviour of real neural networks — measured using cellular-resolution functional recordings. - Nature

It's a provocative discussion. There are many sites "where the story is being reframed at this very moment." - Hyperallergic

But "what should the arts be doing? They can break the national narratives around addiction," first off. Not everyone goes to AA. And not everyone relapses. - Salon

Look no farther than the art of Europe in the Middle Ages. - Fast Company

Turns out you don't have to feel bad about stolen land if it was your country's land to begin with. - Slate

Bolstered by a $750,000, three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Jar is in the vanguard of a movement seeking to capitalize on the communal powers of the visual and performing arts — what’s often referred to as “community engagement.” - Washington Post

"I’m intrigued by how words are organized in our mental dictionaries. Everyone’s mental dictionary is a little bit different. And I’m even more intrigued by how we can restore the content of our mental dictionaries or improve our use of them, particularly for those who have language disorders." - The Conversation