Would you rather interview the prickly Stephen Jay Gould or the gracious and courtly E. O. Wilson? John Horgan suggests that his stories about Gould were better than what he's written about Wilson: "Jerks often make more vivid subjects than nice guys. When Murray Gell-Mann derided science journalists as ignoramuses, I thought, 'Yes! This is great stuff!' I couldn’t wait to start writing about him … If all my subjects were unlikable, my job would be much easier."
November 10, 2015
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