(cambridgenetwork.co.uk): As scientific research has progressed, so have the individual branches become more specialised, and most academic scientists these days inhabit one of a myriad of individual silos. C P Snow famously criticised the inability of the two cultures of science and humanities to communicate. But now, at least at the level of university education and beyond, the single 'science' culture has become a large collection of sub-cultures which do not – and in many cases cannot – communicate with each other. Physicists do not share a vocabulary with biologists, but beyond that the increasing specialisation of science gives rise to small international communities of experts, busy dealing with each other, but with little interest in having contact with the inhabitants of related silos.
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