Improvisation

Sci­en­tists want hob­bies. The gru­el­ing work of nav­i­gat­ing com­plex the­o­ry and the pol­i­tics of acad­e­mia can get to a per­son, even one as laid again as Brown Uni­ver­si­ty professional­fes­sor and astro­physi­cist Stephon Alexan­der. So Alexan­der performs the sax­o­telephone, although at this level it might not be accu­charge to name his avo­ca­tion a spare time pur­go…