Storytellers and Scientists

The world of tomorrow will soon be replete with storytellers who parade as scientists. If we are to resist this advance, scientists need to become better storytellers.

On a summer night fourteen years ago, two young men opened their car doors and stepped out into the cool night air. Just as quickly as their feet hit the asphalt, both turned to open their respective side’s passenger door, allowing their wives to briefly interrupt their backseat banter and join them under the evening sky. Then after grabbing jackets, an…