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    eBriefing

    A Dangerous Divide: The Two Cultures in the 21st Century

    Keynote Speakers: E.O. Wilson (Harvard University), John Edward Porter (Research!America), and Dean Kamen (DEKA Research)

    Fifty years ago, C.P. Snow identified a lack of understanding between scientists and literary scholars. Panelists at an Academy symposium, summarized in a new eBriefing, say the divide today is between scientists and the general public, with troubling consequences.

    Annals

    Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology

    Edited by Nancy VanDerHeide and William J. Coburn (Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California)

    Current trends in this field have radically changed the face of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy by paving the way for innovative thinking, elaborating psychoanalytic theory, and linking therapeutic growth to neuroscience, philosophy, the arts, and other associated disciplines.

    eBriefing

    Night and Day: The Hidden Path to Scientific Knowledge

    Speaker: Gerald Holton (Harvard University)

    Distinguished historian of science Gerald Holton explains that scientists share with artists a period of groping to find what they really want to say.