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After the Riots: Your Inner Polymath

Contributer: Priyali Ghosh Posted: August 31, 2011
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In my previous post I mentioned the MacTaggart lecture delivered in Edinburgh last week by Eric Schmidt who is the chairman of Google, in the same breath that I expressed my individual questions and distress in response to the rioting we have witnessed so recently.

It may seem strange to link the two things but I hope it will become clear why I am.

As reported in The Guardian last Saturday Mr. Schmidt said, “Over the past century the UK has stopped nurturing its polymaths. You need to bring art and science back together.”
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