<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><span class="gmail-im"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms""><span style="color:black">  Name a best seller written about a Nobel Prize winner, name a song...and so on</span>…<span style="color:black"> bill w</span></span><span style="color:black">​</span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms""><u></u> </span></p></div></blockquote></div></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">If you include autobiographical works:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The Double Helix-James Watson</div><div class="gmail_extra">Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman-Richard Feynman</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">​Yes.  Good.  Now name one that wasn't written by the Nobelist.  Point being that highly important people, as considered by the public, get many books written about them and sell very well.  VIPs get on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter with virtually millions of followers.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I think Spike is certainly vindicated:  the public hears little and cares little about scientific people​ and other geniuses playing games.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Stephen Van Sickle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjv2006@gmail.com" target="_blank">sjv2006@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">​</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">  Name a best seller written about a Nobel Prize winner, name a song...and so on</span>…<span style="color:black"> bill w</span></span><span style="color:black">​</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">If you include autobiographical works:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The Double Helix-James Watson</div><div class="gmail_extra">Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman-Richard Feynman</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>
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