One Month Until "Two Cultures" Conference

It's April 9 today--the big extravaganza in New York is exactly a month away, May 9. It's gonna feature E.O. Wilson, Ken Miller, Lawrence Krauss, Dean Kamen, and many, many others. It's also going to feature both of your bloggers, fellow disco blogger Carl Zimmer, many other members of our ScienceDebate2008 crew, my Princeton history of science prof D. Graham Burnett, and many, many more. We'll have C.P. Snow experts, scientific experts, and science and society experts. We're going to take a look at the "two cultures" through the lens of history first, and then we're going to analyze the continuing gap between science and society as manifested through the media, politics, and education. And we're going to propose solutions--indeed, how fitting that Sheril just today has posted an amazingly exhaustive list of policy fellowships for scientists and engineers, which are precisely the sorts of programs that we need to ...