As I hit a brick wall in the editing and found myself sitting for days starting a mountain of wonderful Interview footage, I began fishing back to that questions. Like a life perserver thrown to me in a stormy ocean, the question became my salvation. As I dug deeper, I realized the answer itself tends to be a question. Just look at one of the simplest and most popular of fiction genres, the murder mystery, and the source of tension is a question and virtually its own game. The more I immersed myself in this world of questions, the more I began to flash back to one of the highest compliments for a scientist wnen someones says, the scientist is asking great questions.

But maybe you’all say, story telling is just for fiction. Sorry, but that’s true. This is a shortcoming of today’s science education the failure to make scientist realize they are storytellers, every bit as much as novelists. They just don’t like to admit it, or really even think about it. They tend to think stories mean star wars and harry potter. The truth is stories are as equally important in nonfictions as fiction. They are the way we understand our world.