In today’s episode, we discuss the classic 1959 Rede Lecture by scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. We reflect on whether there is still a divide between the humanities and the sciences, how important it is to be educated in both, whether the humanities and the sciences care just as much about the truth, whether scientists need to know Shakespeare, and what the second law of thermodynamics is about. Enjoy!

 

Snow, Charles Percy (2001) [1959]. The Two Cultures. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45730-9.

Pickering (1995) The Mangle of Practice. https://archive.org/details/mangleofpractice0000pick/page/n5/mode/2up 

Rutger Bregman: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutger_Bregman

 

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