Blogs

=​Blogs= Dan Cohen's blog -The March 8, 2010 post, "The Last Digit of Pi" is a great example of how mathematicians use symbols to represent irrational numbers such as pi. Perhaps mathematics is not just about black and white answers. When one thinks about the infiniteness of pi, and compares it to the endless interpretations of language, the commonality between disciplines is clearer.

-Scroll down to the March 5, 2010 post "The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing" to read Dan's post calling for humanities scholars to publish and accept articles more openly. -Click on the Bio tab at the top of the page to read about Dan. He is an exemplary humanities scholar who created the Zotero research tool software: [].

-Scroll down to the June 7, 2009 post, "Is Google Good for Hist​ory?" to find out about this humanities scholar's take on Google.

-In his post on November 18, 2009 "Digital Humanities Now" Dan describes his true humanities quality...discovering new information through social networking. Digital Humanities Now "aggregates thousands of tweets and the hundreds of articles and projects those tweets point to, and boils everything down to the most-discussed items, with commentary from Twitter" ([]).