Gorgeous Wizards
Salman Khan. No, not the actor. I meant the guy who formed Khan Academy, the non-profit educational website with free videos on pretty much any subject. He gave a commencement address at his alma mater, MIT. I was very amused by two parts of his address. The first was when he mentioned that among his close friends from MIT, “90 percent are married to each other”. Snobs, you assume. Not so, says Khan: “In fact, so extreme is the coupling that I have observed here that I have sometimes suspected that this whole place is just a front for a DARPA-funded human breeding project.” Or perhaps the explanation is much less sinister: “However, there are simpler explanations for all of this MIT-MIT love. The most likely of which is that the admissions office here has a somewhat unhealthy habit of only accepting incredibly attractive people.” The other part I loved was his comparing MIT with “Hogwarts — Harry Potter’s wizarding school”! “The science and innovation that occurs ...