Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life
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Gould's Second Career as a Popular Writer
Gould was diagnosed with a terrible and almost always lethal form of cancer in 1982 eight years before this interview he referred to it modestly as a derailment of a couple of years nothing much to say that i was real sick for about a year and a half. That article or essay really is one of his most famous writings called the median isn't the message in it he explains the difference between average and median median being the halfway point a Median life expectancy of eight months is what came with his diagnosis of abdominal mesothelioma. Gould's second career as a popular writer came as a total surprise to him oh definitely i had no idea that i was ever gonna have this second
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