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Reading C.P. Snow’s 1959 lecture, ‘Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ in 2017, I was struck by the ways in which the essay, written over half a century ago, addresses issues that I’ve been engaged with for most of my life. Snow defined a world of cultures split between: ‘Literary intellectuals at one pole, at the other scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension, sometimes hostility and dislike, but most of all lack of understanding.’ I’ve encountered this lack of understanding in my own profession and in public life. But it was Snow’s closing argument that really grabbed my attention: he proposed to his Cambridge audience that they had ‘better look at education with a fresh eye’ and that there was a ‘good deal to learn from the Russians’. Not really. If, as Snow proposed, ‘Scientists have the future in their bones’, we’d all do better to respond to the cool reason of dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov and Anatol Sharansky and to recognize the ultimate power of free speech, which only exists in a free society.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- There is a difference between feeling empathy for those whose human rights are being violated and taking action to prevent it from happening. IEEE Computer Society Press' Scientific Freedom and Human Rights: Scientists of Conscience in the Cold War is a firsthand account of computer scientists' efforts to safeguard or advance the human rights of scientists around the world, including Soviet refuseniks. \"It is not very often that solidarity among scientists is brought to the public eye, and it is certainly not common for people outside science to associate scientists with heroic struggles for human rights, freedom, and dignity,\" said University of California at Los Angeles professor Judea Pearl. \"[Jack Minker]'s new book will change this perception.\" Minker is a leading authority in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming, and nonmonotonic reasoning. He is also an internationally recognized leader in the field of scientific freedom and human rights and has worked in this field since 1972. Minker is the recipient of a 1985 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award, a 1996 University of Maryland President's Medal, a 2005 Allen Newell Award, and a 2011 Heinz R. Pagels Award from the New York Academy of Sciences: Human Rights Committee.

MONTREAL - Israel is fighting two battles _ one against terrorism and the other against anti-Semitism _ Israeli cabinet minister Natan Sharansky said Sunday. The minister for Jerusalem Affairs told reporters that, \"just as we were in the middle of a struggle against terrorism, now we're also in a struggle against anti-Semitism.\" According to Sharansky it's a new and more subtle anti-Semitism that is aimed at the Jewish state rather than the Jewish religion or Jewish people.

The Genesis Prize Foundation was established in 2012 by the Genesis Philanthropy Group, Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, and the Jewish Agency for Israel with the goal of strengthening the connection of Jewish people around the world to the cultural and spiritual values that unite them. Using a two-tier selection process, it will award a $1 million Prize annually to an individual who has attained excellence and international renown in their chosen professional fields, and whose actions, in addition to their achievement, embody the character of the Jewish people through commitment to Jewish values, the Jewish community and/or to the State of Israel. The Genesis Prize is endowed in perpetuity by the Genesis Philanthropy Group. \"From Moses to Maimonides and Einstein to Ben Gurion - Jews have contributed to the world in an unparalleled wayalways moving forward and inspiring inventions, innovations, thought and creativity,\" said [Natan Sharansky], Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and Chairman of the Genesis Prize Selection Committee. \"The Genesis Prize pays homage to that and aims to find the next generation of great Jewish minds. I am proud to be cooperating with the Prime Minister's Office and the Genesis Philanthropy Group as we begin this exciting and fascinating journey which will shed light on the men and women who light up the world.\"

[Natan Sharansky] said he told [Igor Ivanov] that Syria is a base for all kinds of terrorist activity, and that eventually the weapons that get to Hezbollah through Syria will end up with the Chechens. \"No doubt they are not interested in finding weapons in the hands of Chechens, and he was telling me that,\" Sharansky said. \"I told him that the same centres of ideological, financial and terror that are acting against us are also acting against them. Three-four times he said that they would not give any weapons that can be a possible danger to Israel, which can be used against Israel in an attack. Only weapons for Syria's own defence. We have to see.\"

He noted, however, that \"Israel does not plan to demand that Russia cut its contacts with Syria\". \"Syria owes Russia 13bn dollars, which, I think, Russia will find very difficult to get back. We wish Russia success in having its legitimate demands fulfilled,\" the Israeli deputy prime minister said. [Interfax also reported (Moscow, in English 0706 gmt 19 Jan 03) that [Natan Sharansky] was satisfied that Russia had no plans to build any nuclear facilities in Syria. \"Russia has no plans to build nuclear facilities in Syria either for peaceful or for any other purposes,\" he was quoted as saying. He added, however: \"There does exist a problem in Russian-Israeli relations over the construction of nuclear facilities in Iran, and this is one of few, but serious, disagreements.\"

\"I reject this plan in its current form. The three drafts of the 'road map' I have read are a roll-back to the Oslo process, which was a complete failure,\" [Natan Sharansky] told Interfax before his departure from Moscow. \"The Oslo process revealed that a dictatorship regime cannot act as a partner in solving security problems. [This concept] is an illusion,\" he said.

\"We cannot voluntarily commit ourselves to limit our defence capabilities,\" Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction and Housing Natan Sharansky told Interfax before his departure from Moscow. \"Now that the possibility of a non- conventional attack on Israel by Iraq is being discussed, we must do everything possible to defend ourselves,\" he said.

Moscow, 17 January: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Construction Minister Natan Sharansky met in Moscow today, the Israeli Embassy in Moscow told Interfax.

One of the other topics for discussion for [Natan Sharansky], who holds the post of housing and construction minister in the Israeli cabinet, will be the programme of preparations for celebrations of St Petersburg's 300th anniversary. An ITAR-TASS correspondent has learnt that Sharansky has been appointed Israel's official representative at the festivities.