Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

