The NewScientist recently blogged about C.P. Snow's idea of "two cultures": those trained in the sciences and those trained in the humanities. In this 1959 lecture, Snow proposed that a communications chasm between these groups hindered the effort to solve the world's problems with new technology. He concluded that the two groups essentially spoke different languages that made it impossible to identify common goals. Snow's lecture captured the proverbial differences in "left vs. right brains", and showed us that scientists need to be better at communication while non-scientists need to be more conversant in basic technical and scientific concepts.
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