John Figdor, humanist chaplain for Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) at Stanford, and alumnus Lex Bayer on co-authoring the book "Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Rewriting the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century."
Jerry McBride, head librarian at the music library; George Barth, professor (teaching) of music; and Kumaran Arul, lecturer in music all discuss the Stanford's Player Piano Project, an effort to restore and study instruments known as reproducing pianos that recorded major composers performing their own work in the early 20th century.
The Hoover Institution's current exhibit, "Women and the Great War" focuses on individual women and the roles women played in all the belligerent countries.
Ryan Heuser, graduate student in English and humanities research programmer at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis Operations, co-authored an article on six myths about a large demonstration in San Francisco that took place on Black Friday. The protest was in response to the separate killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice...
Dan Jurafsky, professor of linguistics and of computer science, has created a "flirtation-detection system" which judges flirting with 71 percent accuracy.
"Salon" interviews with John Figdor, humanist chaplain for Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) at Stanford, on “Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart,” a new book that he co-authored with alumnus Lex Bayer.
Interview with Clayborne Carson, professor of history and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, about Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, the role he played in the broader movement for human rights and what many people misunderstand about nonviolence.
Researchers from Stanford, Utrecht University and Wageningen University suggest that one of the factors that led to the downfall of the Roman Empire could be related to how the ancient Romans managed their food supply amid rapid population growth and climate change.