Articles from category Humanities

Will authors become redundant? Probably not, although their role will evolve. Photo: s

When AI writes a book: The future of authors in the era of artificial intelligence

Writing a book is no longer an activity exclusive to humans. Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) can develop a plot, analyze readers’ tastes, follow market trends, and even create illustrations and…

Trip 1907: Interactive Escape the Book Game has become a bestseller.

What goes on in a player’s mind? Gamebooks as a window into cognition

Gamebook-related content racks up millions of views on TikTok, and bookstores now dedicate entire sections to these interactive books. Packed with codes, riddles, and unexpected twists, they’re all the rage…

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669), Group of Men in Oriental Costumes, University of Warsaw Library Print Room, Inv. No. 4285.

Treasures in the Print Room: Drawings and prints at the University of Warsaw Library

Rembrandt, Rubens, Dürer, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec. To encounter works by these outstanding, world-renowned artists, you do not need to travel to Paris, Amsterdam, or New York. A visit to the University…

Once the floor was removed, it became clear something lay beneath the church

A routine church renovation led to a groundbreaking discovery in Cegłów

St. John the Baptist and St. Andrew’s church in Cegłów was due for a new floor and heating system. A routine renovation, however, turned into an archaeological breakthrough that changes…

A view of the excavation site. In the foreground is the edge of the Dry Moat; in the background is the Step Pyramid; between them are the remains of the tombs of the Lower Necropolis (on the right) and the pits where the burials of the Upper Necropolis were located.

The mysteries of Saqqara: What can this ancient necropolis reveal about us today?

Pyramids, mummies, pharaohs – these are the images of ancient Egypt etched into our collective imagination. Yet they capture only a fraction of thousands of years of history, social transformation,…

“If I’d just gotten here sooner, with her, things would have turned out differently… Or would they? We ask ourselves that kind of ‘what if’ all the time.”

Can elves and vampires have dark skin? Counterfactual thinking in philosophy – and on the Internet

“If I’d been there with you back then, things would have turned out differently…” It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t had thoughts like that at some point. On the…

Women painters at work, late 1970s. Photo: Archives of the Faience Department of the Museum of the Kujawy and Dobrzyń Land in Włocławek

Ceramic diplomacy: Włocławek “Fajans” as a tool of cultural policy in the People’s Republic of Poland

Can ceramics serve as a tool of diplomacy? In the People’s Republic of Poland, hand-painted tableware from Włocławek was more than kitchen decor – it also helped foster international ties.…

Roman tableware.

Fragments of the past: Another season of archaeological work at Gonio-Apsaros

Amphora kilns, ceramic vessels, and a gold votive plaque are among the latest discoveries revealing new details about life in ancient Colchis under Roman rule. At the Roman fort of…

"Relational AI" aims to respond to the social, emotional, and erotic needs of its users.

Romance with an illusion: Is a relationship with a chatbot moral?

The so-called Eliza effect – the tendency to attribute human characteristics to machines – is nothing new. Experiments with the chatbot ELIZA in the 1960s demonstrated how easily we are fooled by even…

Team members Andrés Rea and Dr. Lorena Pérez Yarza at the epigraphic exhibition in Aachen.

A stone more enduring than the Roman Empire. Could this open the door to a new understanding of change in Ancient Europe?

The history we learn in school is usually the history of elites. After all, aren’t the sources that shape our understanding of the past largely created by them? Yet in…

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