Overwatched by a lighthouse, the Sun sinks into the Balearic Sea west of Sardinia

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3. Thanks to NASA for (still) supporting the Astronomy Picture of the Day

When I see an image and text such as this—a wonderous fusion of Art and Science—I am always reminded of CP Snow's "The Two Cultures"—given as a lecture at Cambridge about two years after the launch of Sputnik.

I vividly recall listening to Sputnik's "beeps" on a crystal radio as it orbited the earth far above our rented farmhouse. By the time I became aware of the posited "Two Cultures" it had long been in book form and, to my reading, was a somewhat confused misunderstanding of the relationship of Arts (well, at least the Humanities) and Sciences.

None-the-less, Snow did make many valuable and true observations. He also anticipated the dreadful effects of Postmodernism which have done so much to shape our current view of the world.

Here's a link to the published text of the original lecture:
https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5110/snow_1959.pdf