{"id":2786,"date":"2008-07-29T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/29\/two-cultures-roundup\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T08:10:11","slug":"two-cultures-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/29\/two-cultures-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cultures Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I am a Bad Person who thinks and types relatively slowly, I have been lax about following up to the many excellent posts that have been written in response to this weekend’s<\/a> two cultures posts<\/a>. Let me attempt to address that in a small way by linking a whole bunch of them now:<\/p>\n

My rant was actually anticipated by this post at “It’s The Thought That Counts,”<\/a>, which was pointed out to me in comments. <\/p>\n

Janet had the first direct response<\/a>, with a later follow-up speculating about the reasons<\/a> for the divide. As I said in one of my own comment threads, I think a lot of it has to do with academic politics: in my experience, scientists are less likely to take an interest in curricular matters, and thus the distribution\/ general education requirements get written in a way that gives more emphasis to the humanities. This is a tricky area to write about in detail, though.<\/p>\n

Razib provides examples<\/a> of some of the things that upset people on both sides.<\/p>\n

John Wilkins offers a defense of post-modernism<\/a>, sort of. He’s got loads of links and examples, including two of the stupidest things I’ve ever read about physics (thankfully, he’s not citing them positively).<\/p>\n

Tom says “Me, Too!”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, finally, I might be reading too much into this, but today’s Ph.D. Comic<\/a> almost seems like an oblique comment on the same issues.<\/p>\n

So, there you go. I’m sure I missed some– Technorati has been flaky as hell of late. If you wrote something brilliant on the subject and I didn’t link it, it’s just an oversight. Leave a link in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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