Artforum, December 1st, 2005
Scientific Notation
BIOMECHANICIST THOMAS MCMAHON CAPTURED THE KINETIC SPIRIT OF THE LABORATORY IN HIS NOVELS
EVER SINCE C. P. SNOW FAMOUSLY LAMENTED THE "GULF OF MUTUAL INCOMPREHENSION" BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANISTIC THINKERS, THERE HAS BEEN NO SHORTAGE OF CULTURAL HAND-WRINGING ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC ILLITERACY OF POLITICIANS AND THE PUBLIC, OR THE CULTURAL OBTUSENESS OF SCIENTISTS. TELEVISION AND OTHER FORMS OF MASS MEDIA HAVE MADE TECHNICAL IDEAS MORE BROADLY AVAILABLE THAN THEY WERE IN SNOW'S day (it's hard to avoid the prime-time flurry of DNA testing and MRI and CT scans). Yet recent...
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