\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Herb Zinser’s review of Nature’s social philosophy WAR signals \n \n \n en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_<\/span>Two<\/span>_<\/span>Cultures<\/span>\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n Wikipedia<\/span><\/p>\n \n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0<\/span>Two Cultures<\/span>\u00a0is the title of the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist\u00a0<\/span>C. P. Snow<\/span>. Its thesis was that “the intellectual life\u00a0<\/span>…<\/span><\/p>\n \u200e<\/span>The lecture<\/a><\/span>\u00a0– \u200e<\/span>Implications and influence<\/a><\/span>\u00a0– \u200e<\/span>Antecedents<\/a><\/span>\u00a0– \u200e<\/span>See also<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The “Two Cultures” \u00a0 battle at Virginia Tech resulted in many casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n Let’s review the \u00a0tragic situation.<\/span><\/p>\n en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/<\/span>Virginia<\/span>_<\/span>Tech<\/span>_<\/span>massacre<\/span>\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n Wikipedia<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0<\/span>Virginia Tech massacre<\/span>\u00a0was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in\u00a0<\/span>…<\/span><\/p>\n s=”osl”>\u200e<\/span>Seung-Hui Cho<\/a><\/span>\u00a0– \u200e<\/span>Timeline<\/a><\/span>\u00a0– \u200e<\/span>Liviu Librescu<\/a><\/span>\u00a0– \u200e<\/span>Kevin Granata<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n someone at INTERNET computer site –><\/span><\/p>\n truthabout<\/span>vtshooting<\/span>.blogspot.com\/\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n As a student who graduated from\u00a0<\/span>Virginia Tech<\/span>\u00a0with a degree in<\/span>English<\/span>\u00a0in 2005, I had an experience in that paralleled almost exactly …<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n writes—><\/span><\/p>\n \n Originally published April 2007<\/span><\/p>\n \n Terrible experiences pose the riddle whether the person who has them is not terrible.<\/span><\/p>\n — Friedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When I entered Virginia Tech and attended classes, I was immediately struck by the total lack of grounding students had in history, even basic knowledge about the world. It was not a question of lapses or holes in their knowledge. These kids really knew nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n But Virginia Tech is essentially two schools.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There is a math and science school<\/span>, sustained by government research grants, and populated largely by students who have immigrated and were unable to get into a better school.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n The other school is a backwater<\/span>\u00a0(humanities, etc)<\/span><\/p>\n Peopled mainly by white kids brought in by a clean sweep of an area with a three-hundred mile radius, these kids ended up at Virginia Tech because their grades in high school were nominally better than those of their peers. They are at Virginia Tech to get a degree in an empty subject ? like English ? and enjoy four years of partying hard.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The first school of the hard sciences<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n constitutes a kind of dispirited elite nursing a hidden secret.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n The second school<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>is what Virginia Tech has traditionally been: a farm school. Until recently, a photo could be seen on the university website of a smiling girl kneeling next to a cow.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n elite nursing a hidden secret –> C.P.SNOW<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span> Charles Percy Snow<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>CBE<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(15 October 1905 ? 1 July 1980), who was raised to the peerage as\u00a0<\/span>Baron Snow<\/span>, of the City of Leicester, was an English\u00a0<\/span>chemist<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and novelist who also served in several important positions in the\u00a0<\/span>British Civil Service<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and briefly in the\u00a0<\/span>UK government<\/a><\/span>.<\/span>[1]<\/a><\/span>\u00a0He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as “<\/span>Strangers and Brothers<\/a><\/span>“, and for “<\/span>The Two Cultures<\/a><\/span>“, a 1959 lecture in which<\/span><\/p>\n \n he laments the gulf between scientists and “literary intellectuals”.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n In \u00a0East Coast \u00a0universities \u00a0terminology –><\/span><\/p>\n The gulf between Norris Hall engineering and the English department, humanities, social sciences, philosophy,etc<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The term\u00a0<\/span>two cultures<\/span>\u00a0has become a shorthand in certain academic circles for differences between two attitudes;<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Snow’s position can be summed up by an often-repeated part of the essay:<\/span><\/p>\n A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the<\/span>Second Law of Thermodynamics<\/a><\/span>. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of:\u00a0<\/span>Have you read a work of\u00a0<\/span>Shakespeare<\/a><\/span>?s?<\/span>[5]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question ? such as, What do you mean by\u00a0<\/span>mass<\/a><\/span>, or<\/span>acceleration<\/a><\/span>, which is the scientific equivalent of saying,\u00a0<\/span>Can you read?<\/span>\u00a0? not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edifice of modern\u00a0<\/span>physics<\/a><\/span>\u00a0goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the\u00a0<\/span>western world<\/a><\/span>\u00a0have about as much insight into it as their\u00a0<\/span>neolithic<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>ancestors<\/a><\/span>\u00a0would have had.<\/span>[5]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n In 2008,\u00a0<\/span>The Times Literary Supplement<\/a><\/span>\u00a0included\u00a0<\/span>The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution<\/span>\u00a0in its list of the 100 books that most influenced Western public discourse since the\u00a0<\/span>Second World War<\/a><\/span>.<\/span>[2]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Snow’s Rede Lecture condemned the\u00a0<\/span>British educational<\/a><\/span>The C.P.Snow “Two Cultures” battle at Virginia TECH explained by analysis of empirical data reports<\/span><\/h2>\n
Science and Philosophy<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nsent to human society<\/span><\/p>\nThe\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Two Cultures<\/a><\/span>\u00a0– Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nVirginia Tech massacre<\/a><\/span>\u00a0– Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
The Truth About the\u00a0<\/a><\/span>VT Shooting<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>English department<\/span><\/p>\nThe Truth About the VT Shooting<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThe Two Cultures<\/span><\/h1>\n