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Harvard will remove binding made of human skin from 1800s book

The Guardian - Higher Education

University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent Harvard University has said it will be removing the binding made of human skin from a 19th-century book held in its library because of the “ethically fraught nature” of how the unusual binding took place.

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Humane Ingenuity 46: Can Engineered Writing Ever Be Great?

Dan Cohen

Into this landscape a human prompt sets in motion a narrative snowball, which rolls according to the model’s internal physics, gathering words along the way. This is, of course, a recipe for unvaried familiarity, as the angle of the human prompt, like the pool cue, can overdetermine the flow that ensues.

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Humane Ingenuity 45: What AI Tells Us About Art

Dan Cohen

But then again, it also competently echoed the science fiction book covers of my childhood. The best books are worth reading multiple times, as we discover new elements and are affected differently each time we flip their pages. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.

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Author discusses her new book on grant-writing

Inside Higher Ed

Lai, an associate professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development of Boston College. She responded to questions about the book via email. In my book, I use ikigai as a framework for generating grant ideas. That’s why I focus in the book on how to discern these values. Q: What is ikigai ?

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The arts and humanities: rejecting the zero-sum game

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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Humane Ingenuity 43: Your Own Personal Paul McCartney

Dan Cohen

Whenever I check out a library book that has been underlined or annotated, I think about the two anonymous students who aggressively marked up Widener Library’s copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for Himself : I hope these two students did in fact meet at some point, although they may have been separated by decades.

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AAC&U Awards Frederic W. Ness Book Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ness Book Award from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The annual award is given to a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Published by Harvard University Press, the book discusses practices of U.S. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Dr. Jarvis R.