Week 1: Two Cultures JP Snow’s introduction to the idea of two cultures gave me immediate flashbacks to senior year of high school. My art teacher, Ms. Nock, from day one insisted that the faculties at our school, district, state, and country had gravely overlooked the power that art provides in many aspects of life. Like Steven Pinker, she too would very much agree that “the parts of humanities that have been influenced by post modernism that deny that there is any such thing as human nature…” have become a major flaw in education, as well as society. That’s why many of the projects in our art class were focused not solely on design, but how it connected to mathematics, architecture, physical sciences, and so forth. Astronomy and the study of the universe is often an intersection between art and science In one project, my friend and I took two drastically different approaches to my tea...
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