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THE podcast: an interview with Nicholas Dirks, president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences
The former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and current president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences makes the case for more humanities studies and argues that science shouldn't be leveraged in geopolitics
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Nicholas Dirks is a higher education leader, historian, former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and the current president and CEO of the New York Academic of Sciences.
In this interview he explains why interdisciplinarity might be harder to achieve than some might think, how to communicate the public good of science to various audiences, and if science should be leveraged in geopolitics.