Beyond the three cultures: the S&TDL proposal

In 1995, John Brockman started speaking about a third culture able to go beyond the dichotomy between the two cultures – namely the sciences and the humanities – described by Snow (1959), and to enlarge the perspective. The third culture was “the one of those scientists who can tell new and interesting things about the world and ourselves: who can tell them to a wide audience, spreading knowledge beyond the borders of the academia”.... Read more