Humanities

Hot Links | STEM Overhyped? | Critical Thinking in Crisis | Scientific Subjectivity | Sensory Lexicon Gaps

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The Sydney Morning Herald asks: “Are STEM Skills Overhyped?” , while Strategy+Business posits that the lack of executive empathy is due to a dearth of so-called “soft” skills – like critical thinking.

This piece on Medium’s UX Planet highlights the importance of humanities perspectives in design.

This caught our eye: NPR explores the limits of Western languages, when describing scent.

In AEON, Margaret Wertheim’s piece on dimension showcases subjectivity in the sciences (we’ve been saying all along that subjectivity is not the exclusive provenance of the arts)!

Weekly Links - May 27th, 2016 | The Digital Humanities | Emotion and Experience Design | Enriching Language Through the Untranslatable | Maintaining Creativity | STEAM Power

Weekly Links - May 27th, 2016 | The Digital Humanities | Emotion and Experience Design | Enriching Language Through the Untranslatable | Maintaining Creativity | STEAM Power

Weekly Links - May 27th, 2016 | The Digital Humanities | Emotion and Experience Design | Enriching Language Through the Untranslatable | Maintaining Creativity | STEAM Power