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 […]