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	Why the World Watches This Man

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12-20-2007 6:53 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7bca0b1d-29ac-4ae1-ab39-f63b7cfd8b2f/31ABF416-CFE9-401C-A288-8B40839206C3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/blogs/boston/2007/12/19/why-the-world-watches-this-man/" href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/blogs/boston/2007/12/19/why-the-world-watches-this-man/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bostonmagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/blogs/boston/2007/12/19/why-the-world-watches-this-man/"><P>Guess what? The Hub is still filthy with geniuses. Take a look at those Harvard and MIT scientists <A title="It's called synthetic biology" href="http://www.esquire.com/features/best-brightest-2007/synthbio1207" linkindex="68" set="yes">bending nature to their will</A>, or that Harvard economist, already <A title="Roland Fryer is a genius" href="http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1205FryersGrades" linkindex="69" set="yes">praised for his big ideas</A>, now using <A title="Just read the whole post" href="http://www.esquire.com/features/best-brightest-2007/advertising1207" linkindex="70" set="yes">marketing that’s as effective as a hip-hop video</A> to get inner-city kids to learn.</p> <P>This is nothing, though, compared to one <STRONG>Walter H.G. Lewin</STRONG>, a physics professor at MIT. Lewin has emerged as an international sensation, and not just because he <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/education/19physics.html?em&ex=1198213200&en=f1969a5703b764c9&ei=5087%0A" linkindex="71" set="yes">beats students with cat fur</A>.<SPAN id="more-1049"></SPAN> Lewin records his physics lectures, and thanks to the <A href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm" linkindex="72" set="yes">OpenCourseWare program</A> MIT offers, the school posts the videos online. He’s become the academic rock stars of academic rock stars.  The man:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/31ABF416-CFE9-401C-A288-8B40839206C3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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