Weird Science
One of the podcasts I listen to while trodding the treadmill is Alan Alda’s “Clear and Vivid: Conversations about Communicating and Connecting.” At the end of each interview, he asks his guests seven questions. In case I’m ever famous, I’ve got my answers lined up. Being on his podcast is on my Wish List, along with being the Guest Celebrity on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” showing up as a clue in a Will Shortz crossword puzzle, and lamenting how no political party wants a post-middle age white moderate male on Margaret Hoover’s reboot of “Firing Line.” I’ve given up on winning the Pulitzer Prize for humor, although it would be fun to be known as The Dave Barry of Medicine. One of my prize possessions is a book my Dad had him sign inscribed, “To Howard, my idol, Dave Barry.” Question one of the seven inquiries is “What is something you wish you really understood?” and I would really like to know how things work. Take physics. (Please.) I took high school physics