The life sciences are not the life sciences

Daniel Miessler has a shortish blog post about this. I think it was in the early Noughties that some hard sciences (e.g. biology, chemistry, genetics) tried to label themselves as the "life sciences" - but this approach may be older. This led at least one smart liberal arts researcher to the conclusion that this label was quite wrong: It's history, philosophy and literature which teach us how to deal with life. Biology and chemistry just provide helpful tools.