NB: We touched on so many topics in this one that I’m here going to limit myself to the readily linkable stuff. Come to think of it, that may be a good policy going forward…

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Austin Allen’s book Pleasures of the Game

– Poetry by the Sea

– C. P. Snow’s essay “The Two Cultures”

– Roger Kimball’s essay on “The Two Cultures”

– Amit Majmudar’s essay “Kepler’s Snowflake”

– Amit Majmudar’s essay “The Brains of Animals”

– William Blake’s poem “Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau”

– Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Sonnet: To Science”

– Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen”

– Dan Chiasson’s incoherent tweet about UFOs

– Richard Dawkins’ bizarre tweet about The Metamorphosis

– The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

– The Travels of Blad J. Garamond

– Annie Dillard’s book The Writing Life

– Amit Majmudar’s poem “Patient Histories”

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