Nobel laureates more likely to dabble in other interests

Nobel laureates are much more likely to partake in some other kind of pursuit - actor, dancer, magician etc.

22 times as likely compared to other scientists to be a performer
Example of Claude Shannon who was interested in juggling, poetry, designing wearable computers. He pursued projects that might have caused others embarrassment.

As David Epstein notes in Range, Nobel laureates, compared with other scientists, “are at least twenty-two times more likely to partake as an amateur actor, dancer, magician, or other type of performer.” To take one example, Claude Shannon, the brilliant MIT polymath who helped invent the digital world in which we live today, plunged into all kinds of pursuits, from juggling to poetry to designing the first wearable computer. “Time and time again,” notes his biographer, “he pursued projects that might have caused others embarrassment, engaged questions that seemed trivial or minor, then managed to wring breakthroughs out of them.”