Biotechnology & Art : A Bridge Between Two Cultures
by C.P Snows’ influential Two Cultures essay outlines what he calls the “great cultural divide” between the disciplines of science and the humanities/arts. Snow, who declares …
Author: Frances Treadwell
Science for Social Need & the Patenting of Intellectual Property
In The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, Robert Merton, an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, introduced his …
The Darwinian Revolution: A Product of Two Cultures
Janet Browne’s The Origin of Species: A Biography dives into the biography of Charles Darwin and the story behind his writing of the groundbreaking book …
The Atomic bomb: A “Masculine Philosophy”
Both World War One and Two, despite taking an atrocious toll on human lives, led to important technological and scientific leaps. In WWI the use …
Maya Lin : Visual Art to Combat Climate Change
C.P Snows’ influential “Two Cultures” essay outlines the great cultural divide that separates the disciplines of the “sciences” and the “arts and humanities.” Snow, who …
Hedy Lamarr : “The most beautiful woman in the world” or the most beautiful mind?
“My face is a mask I cannot remove: I must always live with it. I curse it” – Hedy Lamarr Hollywood actress and inventor …
“Monster Creations” : Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Holmes & the Human Ego
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is credited as one of the world’s first science fiction novels. Written in 1818, Shelley’s novel is a tale about Victor …
Nature as a Machine : The Scientific Revolution and Contemporary Medicine
Central to the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries was mechanical philosophy: the comparison of the universe to a large-scale mechanism. While throughout …
Innovation in Science & Technology: Is Society the Limiting Factor?
Technology is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “scientific knowledge used in practical ways in industry, for example in designing new machines.” While this definition …
STS & the Future of Science
We live in the Age of Information. CNN news stories ping for our attention as they blare across the screens of our cell phones each …