Scientists Nice, Humanists Nasty

An interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, aka Pravda (for nothing, for them, is ever wrong in Higher Education; at worst it is just an extra incentive to work for the Five Year Plan). Leonard Cassuto, a professor of English, describes a sojourn amongst phycisists and is amazed to find out that they're nice guys! The horror, the horror!

Fascinating that, despite the stereotype of the lone scientist in the lab, it's actually humanists who stay alone and are unable to share with other children. Scientists, as you'll see if you look at the end of a scientific paper, are supposed to work in groups.