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C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef
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C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef
This week we're discussing C.P. Snow's influential 1959 lecture 'The Two Cultures', on the growing division between literary and scientific intellectuals:
"So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic ancestors would have had."
Why do literary types tend to be Luddites? Is it kinda good that hubristic tech bros refuse to read the classics? Has the gap narrowed or widened in recent decades? How closely does The Two Cultures map onto the stemcels vs shape rotators meme? And of course Cam analyses the various status dynamics at play.
Trickling out episodes atm while Rich is on paternity leave. Normal service will resume shortly
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