This week we learned about Two Cultures and how the connection and or disconnect between the two cultures is all around us. It really made me think about how it affects my personal life and the disconnect has been right in front of me for nearly my whole life. I am 20 years old and so is my sister, I am a twin and we couldn't be more different. She is very artistic and has been her whole life where I have little to no artistic ability whatsoever. I've always been drawn to math or equations and having a set answer and she has drifted toward the musical world where you can express yourself in anyway you choose. This is shown through the majors we chose as well, I am an Economics major and she is a Music History major. Being an Economics major the only art exposure I get really is through GE's. My major is isolated from the arts. Snow explains this disconnect of how educated people sometimes don't understand the simplest aspects of each culture.

But then this is where the Third Culture comes in which essentially connects the two separate cultures which Snow didn't mention in his thesis. Although my sister and I are very different we are still able to hold our own in both fields which Snow said they are very different. My favorite quote in The Third Culture which really summed it up for me was "Bridging and synthesizing many worlds while composing "something else" becomes the real art". I think that these people are really important to society and that it takes a special person to be able to merge both worlds and be equally good at both.

I see the connection between science and art in everyday life. One example is the tv show Cosmos. It explains scientific concepts through images and cartoons to make it intriguing to a wider audience, not only scientific thinkers. I believe that connecting the two cultures is the best way to learn because not only are you leanring to master your field but also widening your understanding in other fields.

"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey." National Geographic Channel. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2015.

Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge UP, 1959. Print.

"The Two Cultures." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2015

Vesna, Victoria. “Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between.” Leonardo 34.2 (2001): 121-25. Web. 3 April 2015. 

"What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Asimov to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions." Brain Pickings RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2015.