The Two Cultures, always new

[alice wellintown]

The curve!!!!

On Thursday, August 8, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

> I like that Pinker says that the intellectual giants of the past would
> fill the gap in their knowledge with a 21st century freshman science class.
>
> Imagine sitting in your Freshman Chemistry lecture at MIT (Cornell,
> Stamford ...), you look for that cute kid your noticed out on the grass,
> tossing a frisbee, and there, there, sitting in the front row...Spinoza and
> Kant...taking copious notes.
>
>
> On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> Very interesting verbally brazen response to Pinker.
>>
>>   *From:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 7, 2013 6:38 AM
>> *Subject:* The Two Cultures, always new
>>
>>   http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-humanities#
>>
>>
>>
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