From two brilliant young authors - one a science journalist and the other a biologist - comes an impassioned polemic about the dangers of America's scientific illiteracy. In his famous 1959 Reith Lecture at Cambridge University, C.P Snow described science and the humanities as 'Two Cultures', separated by a 'vast gulf of mutual incomprehension.' The humanists were running government, he worried; the low prestige of science at the time meant that Western leaders, and the elites who surrounded them, saw little need to be educated in scientific subjects that were increasingly relevant to world problems: the elementary physics behind nuclear weapons, for instance, or the basics of plant science needed to feed the world's growing population. Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum offer a 'Two Cultures' polemic for the 21st century. Our gravest problems - climate change, the energy crisis, threats...
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