Walter Isaacson talk on sciences and the humanities

Last week, I listened to Walter Isaacson give a speech entitled The Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences (*). Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, is also the biographer of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein (the Jobs book, by the way, is superb). If you have the time, I highly recommend this hour plus talk - it is full of awesome anecdotes and stories. Check it out.


(*) By the way, I am always amazed that so many people still feel very strongly about either the humanities or the sciences. Like other debates, I tend to expect people to find the mutually-beneficial middle ground. Either way, this talk explains why you need to be cognizant of both sides.