Category: Arts and Culture
Wall-E @ 10
(Marketplace)
Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood sat down with Robinson to discuss the real-life implications of issues brought up in the film, and how some of the critiques it made about society 10 years ago are still relevant now.
Yes, Studying the Humanities Might Make You a Better Person
Slate
Researchers found that the higher the humanities exposure, the higher these students scored on measures of empathy, wisdom, tolerance of ambiguity, resourcefulness, and emotional intelligence, and the lower they scored in signs of burnout.
From personal experience, the people most in need of greater “empathy, wisdom, tolerance of ambiguity, resourcefulness, and emotional intelligence” are the last to ever think they are deficient in any way. Additionally, they are also usually void of any interest in any aspect of the humanities.
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
Brain Pickings
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”
Dean’s List 