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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

C.P. Snow: Bridging the Two-Cultures Divide

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new piece on C.P. Snow

"The year 2005 is the centenary of the birth — and the 25th anniversary of the death — of C.P. Snow, British physicist, novelist, and longtime denizen of the "corridors of power" (a phrase he coined). It is also 45 years since the U.S. publication of his best-known work, a highly influential polemic that generated another phrase with a life of its own, and that warrants revisiting today: The Two Cultures..."

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(th:3quarksdaily)

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