Flutterings

(and would indeed insist that sciences vs. humanities is a false dichotomy...)

I love you for writing this. I have a very good friend who is a prominent scientist, and her dad was a historian and her mom, a Chaucer scholar. She very much insists that C.P. Snow's "two cultures" is a valid representation, and I just don't see how she can uphold this given her family's educational background. I think there are social differences between the sciences and humanities, but that any intellectual difference is socially constructed - at some point, it became cool to pass off a lack of interest/appreciation for one set of fields by claiming to be a practitioner of the other. (I get this all the time from engineering students who tell me that they shouldn't be graded on their writing skills because they're engineers and I'm not teaching an English class.) What I don't know is whether that came before Snow, or whether it's a result of Snow. As far as I'm concerned, there's no meaningful divide between the sciences and humanities.

I've been meaning to ask you if you have any apprecation for botanical prints. I have something I might like to send you...