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Ian Lamont writes "You probably remember reading about Brian May getting a PhD in Astrophysics, but may not know about the many other celebrities from the music, TV, and film worlds who have studied science and technology in college and grad school, or are simply serious gearheads who like gadgets, games, and other geek pastimes. Computerworld has identified about 50 celebrities who fit the bill, including Dan Grimaldi (Patsy Parisi, The Sopranos) who has a Bachelor of Arts degree in math, a master's in operations research and a Ph.D. in data processing; Rowan Atkinson, who has a master's in electrical engineering from Queen's College, Oxford; and Todd Rundgren, who developed an early paint program called Utopia. Other folks on the list: Dr. Demento, Montel Williams, Natalie Portman, Curt Schilling, and Huey Lewis."
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It's the reason the story got posted, methinks.
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Yes, because, obviously Syria and Sudan are almost the same country. Those muslins people, the same everywhere!
From the little hut I live - I'm South American - I've heard in the big country to the north people are SO civilized! Money from government budget is not diverted into big corporations, their foreign police aims at the noblest principles from international law. At least, the guys that founded it said so. Don't know how they're today, news come quite slowly here: Tom didn't go the city this week to bring in the news, you know.
Oh, get out off the bubble, man! Muslim people are not the same, as the western civilization isn't. There was nice Muslims societies in history - some of them got nice intellectual wonders, such as Averrois philosophy - but today they're stuck on their dark ages, specially with the surge of wasabanism lately. Just bombing them doesn't work. Just saying "oh Lord, they're BAD!" doesn't too. Understand the problem, solve the problem.
And no, I don't understand it as a whole. I'm not even western, if you follow american definition of the western society - how could my opinion count by your standards ? But get the humility to say you doesn't understand it too and, if you care, go study it. If you don't have it, at least keep your mouth shut.
English is not my first language. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.
This has no relevance to "Science" section and should not even belong to /. This is more like Digg story.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
I just love how your post gets modded 'interesting' instead of 'insightful'. Seems like you really told the moderators something they didn't know about before.
A World in a Grain of Sand / Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Infinity in the Palm of your Hand / And Eternity in an Hour.
Thanks for the NSFW label, asshole.