7.26.2007

Another One Bites The Dust

... Zodiacal dust, that is.
Brian May (he of 'lead guitarist of Queen' fame) is completing his PhD in astrophysics.

"I didn't want an honorary PhD. I wanted the real thing that I worked for," he told the BBC. Got to respect that.

I've maintained that musicians, actors, even sports people are often very smart. That they choose to do what they do does not mean that they are any less smart than any of us. Far from it. They are doing what they have an absolute advantage in.

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