The Guardian view on the two cultures: bridge the divide, starting with A-levels | Editorial

Seventy years after CP Snow warned of estrangement between the sciences and arts, breadth in education should be encouraged After the playwright Tom Stoppard died last year, one of the most striking tributes to his work came from a clinical scientist. Michael Baum explained in the British Medical Journal how, in the interval of a 1993 performance of Arcadia, he experienced an epiphany. Thomasina Coverly’s attempt to plot the equation for a rose prompted him to realise that chaos theory was th...

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