by Jamie Henzy | Scientists at one time shared the title of "natural philosophers", and largely spoke the same language. As their techniques grew in sophistication, they set as their goal nothing less than the building of a giant tower of Knowledge of all Nature. When God saw this blatant display of hubris, she struck their tongues so that their speech could no longer be understood to one another, and they scattered far and wide to found their individual disciplines, then sub-disciplines, then sub-sub-disciplines, in a never-ending fractal cleavage. Read more →