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Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall and the appeal of seriously brainy people

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How do you get to be a tenured professor of physics at Harvard? How many equations do you have to solve to jump through all the hoops leading to a faculty position at Cambridge, MIT, or Stanford. We celebrate the men and women who have the brain cells and commitment to go all the way to the top, a tenured gig at an Ivy League school.

What's the most difficult job in the world? No, no, no, not winning 'American Idol'. That's easy-peasy compared to what I have in mind.

For my money, the toughest job to get is a tenured gig as professor of mathematics or physics at Harvard or any other Ivy League university -- you can add snooty Oxford and Cambridge universities to that list as well.

To become, like Dr. Lisa Randall, a professor of physics at Harvard and a leading expert in string theory you almost have to bounce out of the womb solving differential equations. That's not the sort of job where you get discovered by Simon Cowell, then are launched on an international career.

Cutting-edge, peer reviewed hard science is not something you learn practicing in front of your bedroom mirror in Hoboken, Bangalore, or Helsinki.

While there are a few respected independent theorists out there, Julian Barbour is one, 99.9% of the super brainy, the people devising the theories, testing them, and writing the books, have throughout their lives had an ability to tackle problems that leave most people feeling baffled and inadequate.

Einstein's example shows us you can be a relative dunce at school and still be a genius, but that wasn't so much Einstein's fault but the inability of a rigid school system to nurture his precocious and prodigious talent.

I don't think you're entitled to call yourself a genius if you excel in soft options such as history or media studies. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence can do well in media studies. It's a different matter altogether to get amass

Dr. Lisa Randall, string theorist and professor of physics at Harvard University. She was the first tenured woman in the Princeton physics department, and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard. Go suck on that, dude!

straight As in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Those with a bachelor's degree in this or that subject, do you understand quantum mechanics, have you any idea what string theory is all about, can you explain E=MC2 to your kids? Of course you can't. That's because they are seriously difficult ideas to grasp. And you can't get a decent grasp of them unless you understand the language in which they are best expressed.

Linda Buck, Nobel prize winner

No, not English or Chinese or French, but mathematics. Unless you are a whizz at math you will never have anything but a kindergarten knowledge of the origins of the universe, sub-atomic particles, and attempts to unify quantum mechanics and relativity theory.

There are millions out there who are turned on by the image of a woman in high heels and seamed stockings, just as there gay

Scientist Grace Hopper

and straight folks alike who want nothing more than to look at guy's bulging package inside a pair of over-tight Speedos.

And then there are people like myself who wobble at the knees when Dr. Lisa Randall expounds on the notion of hidden dimensions. There are many who melt in the middle when Harvard prof. and evolutionary psychologist tosses out an idea on the origins of consciousness or

Fotini Markopolou-Kalamara, physicist and mathematician

Pin-up genius, Steven Pinker of Harvard

the different ways in which the brain handles regular and irregular verbs. Pinker is one of a few academics who's made that quantum leap into the world of celebrity. He's the thinking person's Mickey Rourke, or an articulate version of Keith Richards.

My favorite flavor of brainy crumpet is Brit actress Kristin Scott Thomas. I am sure she could have taken a spot in the physics department at Cambridge or Stanford if she hadn't dedicated herself to Hollywood and, more recently, independent, art house movies. I would have loved to have seen her flashing a stick of chalk across the blackboard in a crowded lecture hall at Stanford or Cambridge But had she been there, I would have missed her. My grades were only good enough to get me into medical school at NYU.

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