The Scientist Who Wrote Rings Around The Earth (washingtonpost.com)

The world has become much less intelligent, just like that.

Stephen Jay Gould's books are all must-reads. I particularly enjoyed "The Mismeasure of Man," about the basic fallacy of IQ testing. A great writer and scientist--and someone with a fine sense of baloney detection, as Carl Sagan might have put it.

I wish I had met him. I don't know how it would have come about or what I would have said, but I still wish...