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Lawrence Krauss on science writing, and whether or not science is art
...in which I posit that raising funds is a primary motivator explaining why scientists write, and Lawrence disagrees; and the two of us argue over the similarities (or lack thereof) between art and science...
...having to do with art being human-made versus nature-made, and possibly not actually constituting a disagreement after all if we're talking end results. Anyway. The conversation is interesting I think, if a bit grating...
Lawrence Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who has over the years taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now called ASU Interplanetary Initiative, to investigate fundamental questions about the universe, and served as it's director. He retired in May 2019 and is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation and host of The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss.
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