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                                             January 15, 2012
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Lehrer's take is that
modern "third culture",
advocates are essentially    That's essentially John
science popularizers,        Brockman's usage of term
intent on promoting a        "the Third Culture", as
second-culture mindset.      described on his edge.org
                             site in a piece dated 1991.
They're the kind of
people who might say            Lehrer didn't bother to cite
something like this:            Brockman, instead choosing to
                                claim that the E.O.  Wilson book
   KNOWS_SOMETHING              "Consilience"-- published six
                                years later, in 1997-- was the
   Essentially, Lehrer          movement's "manifesto.
   is trying to point
   the way back to                                  Actually, I didn't
   C.P. Snow's original                             think anyone much
   concept of a third                               liked that book.
   culture as a bridge
   between the humanities    (Brockman admits             CONSILIENCE_PRIZE
   and the sciences.         that his usage
                             differs from Snow's.)

Lehrer is on the side
of blending cultures
one and two without
giving either primacy.

That's an easy line to
take in outline, but
difficult to see what
to do with it.






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