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- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -4/+70Hellllloooooooooo Isha Jain
- solarweasel, on 11/24/2008, -29/+92"If I had been in the regular school system, I doubt any of this would have developed."
well ***** you kid, AND your privileged youth - lulzitsadigg, on 11/25/2008, -2/+61I could have been a genius. But I didn't want to -- instead, I troll digg.
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -3/+44Yeah? well i was voted most energetic in 6th grade. BEAT THAT!
- cl2yp71c, on 11/25/2008, -3/+38I'm 18 and...
...I can do handstands. - Sail3, on 08/04/2009, -4/+32"well ***** you kid, AND your privileged youth"
FTA: "Since he was 10 years old, Streich has lived on a farm, helping tend crops and livestock."
Yeah, the epitome of "privileged". I bet he summers in Cape Cod and drives an '09 Escalade. Seems to me like he's just a hard working guy, so ***** off. - inactive, on 11/24/2008, -7/+30Impressive youngsters, indeed. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of brilliant teens who quickly discover that using their powers for evil often pays more immediate dividends.
- Rezistik, on 11/25/2008, -1/+23Under 70k a year? How do you manage to eat....?
- BenO169, on 11/25/2008, -1/+21I'd give her a scholarship from the Siemens competition.
- metateck, on 11/25/2008, -0/+19I once drew a picture of a rabbit that got me two gold stars.
- krispykreams, on 11/25/2008, -1/+18I don't feel like I have to prove myself to Digg users, but I also don't think "Teen Genius" is the proper title for this article. There are many other teenage individuals out there who are working on theoretical problems in fields like physics, mathematics, computer science, etc (as opposed to these 5 working on practical situations) who are significantly more gifted and will also contribute in the long run. The only difference is that they don't have these "success stories," so they are not featured. These kids are very bright, by no means the cream of the crop.
- aznpwnzor, on 11/25/2008, -1/+16wow 70k you guys aren't well off at all
- Kenzan, on 11/25/2008, -1/+16Brains, Money, and fame?
Oh yeah, they'll get laid alright.
In spades. - Phych, on 11/25/2008, -4/+18Anyone else Google Isha Jain hoping for more pics?
...anyone? - minnymoo, on 11/25/2008, -2/+15impressive, let's get it on.
- cl2yp71c, on 11/25/2008, -1/+14I came.
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -2/+14***** these kids and their loving and supportive parents and good schools and moms that don't shoot up heroin and pass out and forget to pick them up 3 out of 4 times they ask and dads that don't get wasted at their son's birthday parties and then stop showing up on saturdays to pick them up and then go missing for 4 years and have sisters who don't steal money from their brother for coke and whatever else and sleep with every guy they know. ***** THESE KIDS
- Chris_F, on 11/25/2008, -1/+12Not all of us have mass spectrometers just laying around.
- trollick, on 11/25/2008, -0/+11in the middle?
- Haptick, on 11/25/2008, -2/+10As a graduate student in biomedical engineering, I have also developed a more than jaded view of high school students in research. They basically struggle to learn the ropes of basic research and are more or less dish-washers and coffee-brewers. Frankly, most of them can't even do that; they blank out completely when you ask them to do the simplest of task or blank out like rock when you talk about anything relevant to their "research". But somehow they magically become poster-children for the research when it comes time to do a press-release, probably because people like to think that the spoiled fruit-of-loom they've pushed through private school will make a positive difference in the world, rather than become the next botox/collagen-pusher at the local plastic-surgery office.
- subterfuge, on 11/25/2008, -0/+8RTA. he was homeschooled, not privately schooled.
- valentino600, on 11/25/2008, -0/+8No, but i am gonna do it now :D
- dannyboy3020, on 11/25/2008, -1/+9Really? What kind of evil deeds are young geniuses doing?
- Modestexcuse, on 11/25/2008, -1/+9I don't think Isha will have any problems at all.
- Modestexcuse, on 11/25/2008, -3/+11I'm smarter than a 5th grader.
- elipabst, on 11/25/2008, -0/+7Designing novel and increasingly more complex bongs. You think the kid who made a one-hitter out of carbon nanotubes is going to make that list?
- thedivinelyevil, on 11/25/2008, -1/+8with research, you do end up publishing a few papers over time, which is less impressive the older you get. i would say they are smart and dedicated rather than geniuses. Geniuses are rare.
- subterfuge, on 11/25/2008, -0/+7This story is a little too detailed for it to be hypothetical . . .
- Dabaum, on 11/25/2008, -4/+10I'd put my penis in her vagina, if you know what I mean
- SillyRabbits, on 11/25/2008, -0/+6You're absolutely right. Even at the undergraduate level 99% of undergraduate researchers are useless. In fact most new graduate students are useless. I don't care how many silly AP classes somebody takes, they haven't even had the introductory classes to the topics they need to know backwards and forwards - and they need to know those before they will even have the foundation necessary to learn about the topics they will be dealing with in research. It's not a matter of intelligence, it's simply a matter of exposure to the volume of material needed to even understand the questions being asked. Most fields of research are mature and none of these students are going to be giving insight after a few weeks or months of working with the topic. If people think otherwise then they haven't been involved in true research. In every one of these cases, there is a real scientist in the background (that is working in the area) that designed the experiments and helped them analyze the results (and that's assuming that they didn't just reproduce the same results somebody else has already done). These kids may go on to do great things, but nothing they are doing at the HS level is worth notice to the scientific community.
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -2/+8Uh, the kid says he was homeschooled. That's privileged? New England prep schools like Deerfield and Philips-Exeter Academy are privileged and cost as much as private universities. Homeschooling is the far opposite of that.
- JohntheDread, on 11/25/2008, -2/+8It would be better if he didn't recognize he was privileged, if he was one of those douchebags who drove around with their hats backwards pretending that they're hard because mommy didn't love them? Yeah, most people's parents mess them up, but the ones who acknowledge that they got lucky are much better than the ones that believe they're inherently superior. It's not like anyone has a lot of control over who their parents are anyway.
- SilverStandard, on 11/25/2008, -1/+6http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDo ... (PDF warning)
- cowsgonemadd3, on 11/25/2008, -0/+5http://www.societyforscience.org/sts/67sts/pics/ja ...
- fluxion, on 11/25/2008, -0/+5yes, and google didnt disappoint.
- geoboy, on 11/25/2008, -1/+6I think by "privileged" they really mean "had parents who actually cared enough to sacrifice their time and resources to properly educate their child". That really is a privilege in my book. And the kid knows it.
- jingles78, on 11/25/2008, -2/+7I dispute that fact.
- Kenzan, on 11/25/2008, -0/+5Sooooo..What you are saying is that they are smart sluts?
- FENWAYFREAK, on 11/25/2008, -0/+5What do they have in common? They didn't rot away in school wasting time.
- NathanielJ, on 11/25/2008, -1/+6Yeah, that's how you learn how to do research. You help the established minds do their work and you learn the ropes. You don't just get to grade 12 and magically know everything about your area of research and start publishing papers out of nowhere.
- m0tbaillie, on 11/25/2008, -2/+7Indisputable fact? Cite a source. More realistically, most of the smartest minds in the world do NOT work for governments because they make 5x what the gov't would pay them out in the private sector.
- BillMoocho, on 11/25/2008, -1/+6Both of the girls there look pretty decent. I'm sure they've already gotten more action than you will in your entire life.
- m0tbaillie, on 11/25/2008, -1/+6Exactly. These kids are clearly great thinkers, are going places and will get great educations. I highly doubt they'll have a problem 1) making mad, mad bank, and 2) getting laid at will.
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -1/+5Albert Einstein
--"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
--"Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing." - m0tbaillie, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4I work for the government and you have no ***** clue what you're talking about. Crawl back under that tinfoil rock you live beneath.
- Gloogle, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4I second that. They just had a great helping hand. Any kid with creativity, and a good support would have done what they did. I'm kind of jealous. Went to the same high school as Eric Delgada, the biology teachers there are superb, they really support kids who show a great interest in sciences.
- charm803, on 11/25/2008, -3/+7Thanks for making me feel so unproductive!
Damn kids!
/s - Brian994, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4Are you referring to the "Radioactive Boy Scout"? http://i33.tinypic.com/zj9v13.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn - inactive, on 11/25/2008, -1/+5envy is a funny thing.
- Twoje, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4I cower in fear at her piercing gaze and evil grin.
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