Contributor: Tony Conaway - - Water. Food. Shelter. Sex. They say these represent our most instinctual drives. However, for some of us, there is another, stronger drive: the need to prove that we know. I am a scientist, but it’s more than that. It’s not enough for me to know all sorts of obscure and irrelevant facts. I have to let you know that I know. This intense need to prove that you know something is stronger than the need for food, stronger than the survival instinct, even stronger than the sex drive. Let me give an example. Recently, I took a young lovely to a production of La bohème. She loved it. She wept during “Musetta’s Waltz.” (And I managed to avoid telling her that Bobby Worth adapted “Musetta’s Waltz” into a pop song called “Don’t You Know?” which became a hit for Della Reese in 1959. I was planning to save...

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Author: Tony Conaway