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by asdfman123 1131 days ago
I would bet you money if you asked a random sampling of college grads, 10x the number of people could roughly summarize Romeo and Juliet than the second law of thermodynamics.
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Which is a bit of shame since the two cultures are of roughly equal importance to the future prospects of college grads.
The Two Cultures isn’t just about lamenting that science knowledge is underrepresented though. The tragedy is that for a typical college grad they can do one or the other but not both.