If there's anything exciting or curious that happens while he doing something, he immediately stops and follows up on it. He also clearly had a fun-loving streak and he clearly loved what he was doing and was going at it full bore. He was having a marvelous time. I think science is the most creative enterprise on earth. I get a tremendous buzz out of the visual arts, but I don't find writing about them very exciting.
Science is lends itself much more to writing, because it is so concept based.
The other thing I love is trying to translate concepts that get buried in technical jargon or in complex data that's difficult to interpret, I like to pull out for people the underlying concepts to make them crystal clear so they can get the same buzz that I do. Because I have a background in science I can sift through this all and get to the essence where for the average layman it's a lot harder to do. I went through a soul-searching period where I decided I preferred science writing to doing basic research because I enjoyed being more of generalist. You really are very pigeon-holed in science, you really do lose sight of the big picture. All rights reserved.