Q&A: David Kaiser on our debt to science’s countercultural turn

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 07:30 in Mathematics & Economics

When science met the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, unusual things happened. The medical researcher John Lilly studied whether dolphins could learn human language. Would-be astronomer Immanuel Velikovsky made widely read claims that a comet had caused biblical disasters. But other projects have had lasting legacies: Artisanal food makers founded organic farms, designers built […]

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