What Happens When Scientists Work With Unexpected Experts | MinuteEarth [3:56]

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You know what actually helps people overcome cultural biases? The arts.

  Back in the day, a ‘Liberal’ education meant the the engineers were forced to study things like history, music, and literature.

  These days, it’s focus on your core field and ignore the ‘artsy-craftsy’ stuff

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s “money is the only thing that matters and must be the sole motivator for human existence”.

    Is what it is. And I can’t stand the dumb motherfuckers who get hooked on that lie and wear it as a badge of honor.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    one problem when I went to the large state one was they had the stadium 100 classes and it was hard to meet the requirements with another class as there were not enough sits for the demand to meet the req.

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  • Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve always thought this is a weird status game, insisting that there is some fundamental separation between arts and engineering, or that the complex problems of the world will somehow be solved with more arts.

    I don’t see any reason why this is true, and tons of massively cringe culturally biased writing and art in every form of media to suggest that it’s not. Arts are no better at overcoming cultural bias.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think I said that arts alone are the be all and end all of civilization.

      I was speaking more to the idea of education creating ‘the whole man.’

      I was taught that da Vinci was the perfect Renaissance Man because he was skilled in arts, music, and engineering.

      Take the first case cited in the tape; how many NASA engineers were weavers? Probably not many, but I’d bet a lot of them had grandmothers who used looms. Or maybe they’d heard about they’d ‘programmed’ looms back in the day.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I worked in a lab that had art mfa’s and cs phd’s. It was an amazing place.

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• kboos1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Makes sense, it’s the difference in knowing something and doing something.

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• CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Monocultures in general have weaknesses and diversity helps with this.

  Can apply to companies, genetics, ideas, etc.

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• mcSlibinas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While it’s interesting knowledge - in text form it will save a lot of time.

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