Tag Archives: Two Cultures

The World Needs More Humanists

Posted on October 15, 2013 by thevenerablecorvex

Speaking from personal experience, one of the big questions in public outreach for the Sciences is: How do we get more students into STEM?  The question which seems, unfortunately, to be left unasked is: how many scientists, technologists, engineers and … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on the Future

Posted on December 21, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I think I’m done with Physics now. The process of my Master’s Degree has left me feeling disenchanted. For the last several years, I have felt like a cog in a vast machine–and not a particularly necessary cog either. Beyond … Continue reading →

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“Societal Windtunnels?”

Posted on November 8, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Over on Clarissa’s blog, there’s a bit of an ongoing debate as to whether it is possible to ‘perfect’ Communism in such a way that implementing it doesn’t result in millions upon millions of innocent people dying. On the one … Continue reading →

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Writing and Physics

Posted on October 4, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

One of the very sad consequences of the ideological rivalry between the sciences and the humanities is that everything that has come out of physics over the last sixty years or so has been cursed with incredibly boring, incredibly stupid … Continue reading →

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What I Want To Do With My Life

Posted on September 26, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

So, we’ve established by this point that I want above anything else to be a writer. We’ve also established that it is, in fact, very difficult to make one’s living on writing alone, so the overwhelming likelihood is that I … Continue reading →

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The Secret History of Jaime (Part One)

Posted on August 21, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I love my parents. I truly do. But I find that I have not been enjoying their company on this occasion nearly as much as I should, for all of our interactions this time have been overshadowed and poisoned by … Continue reading →

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Is Economics A Science?

Posted on July 25, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

There’s a bit of an ongoing debate among hard scientists as to whether or not we should count economists among our number. On the one hand (say those who claim that economics is a science) they perform non-trivial mathematical analysis … Continue reading →

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Culture Clash

Posted on June 1, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Perhaps one of my friends in the academic Humanities could clear a particular point up for me. The point is this: as Clarissa has noted, Universities around the world are cutting back on their services in the name of “austerity.” … Continue reading →

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This is a Perfect Example of What I’m Talking About

Posted on May 23, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

One of the major themes that I have running through this blog is that people in the Sciences and people in the Humanities fundamentally do not understand one another, one account of the fact that sciences are inherently apolitical whereas … Continue reading →

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In *My* Ideal World, You Wouldn’t Exist Either.

Posted on April 25, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I have noted in the past that my studies as a physicist are inherently apolitical. This is a simple consequence of the fact that the subject matter with which I deal is abstract. Matter and energy, space and time are … Continue reading →

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