About 30 years ago BBC Radio started an evening program Mon-Fri, billed as covering current news in the Arts & Sciences. But because the BBC was filled with arty types, and (back then) many scientists were not good communicators, the arty types soon took over the whole thing, so the 50:50 arts/sciences split became 95:5 So let's forgo the glitz and have some substance, and to hell with the ratings.
Those of us with an interest in science, engineering or technology can help by pointing out to others that "Yes, we need artists & poets to point in some new directions and to distil the deeper meanings, but without the sciences etc we'd all be in poverty or dead".
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About 30 years ago BBC Radio started an evening program Mon-Fri, billed as covering current news in the Arts & Sciences. But because the BBC was filled with arty types, and (back then) many scientists were not good communicators, the arty types soon took over the whole thing, so the 50:50 arts/sciences split became 95:5 So let's forgo the glitz and have some substance, and to hell with the ratings.
Those of us with an interest in science, engineering or technology can help by pointing out to others that "Yes, we need artists & poets to point in some new directions and to distil the deeper meanings, but without the sciences etc we'd all be in poverty or dead".