Decent article in the Guardian about the disassociation between science and mainstream culture in an increasing physical-phenomenon-interactive world.

One of Angier’s interviewees, Andrew Knoll, a professor of natural history at Harvard’s earth and planetary sciences department, suggests that ‘the average American adult today knows less about biology than the average 10-year-old living in the Amazon, or the average American of 200 years ago’.

Also talks about CP Snow’s two cultures. Interesting reading.

The new age of ignorance

It also contains this great line regarding the publishing agent of Dawkins Dennet et al:

“The universe may be infinite, but Brockman takes 15 per cent of it.”