That looked like 10-250. Didn't they have a bigger room or did they just figure that a May talk would have a relatively small crowd?

It's too bad the slides are so hard to read, but great to hear a Cabinet member who actually shows a firm grasp of his material.

Photographer Galen Rowell called it 'the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.' (See link to Wiki article.)

According to their site 27% of MIT graduates work in the Financial Sector. That's higher than I expected, but nowhere near 75%.

http://web.mit.edu/facts/graduation.html

I was recently told that 75% of recent MIT grads had gone into banking (can this be fact checked) primarily with hedge funds for the easy money and chance to game the biggest system with innovative trading algorithms.

Won't it be great if our best and brightest start being productive again as opposed to aspiring to be modern Lazlos (see Real Genius).

I went over to the MIT site and listened to the lecture, which was sensational. The Obama administration has a lot of people like him and they are getting a lot of money to work with, in part of the stimulus package. The administration seems to be engaged in a full court press, most of it under the media radar.

We really need to focus on the Senate for the midterms.

I, like many other left-leaning Americans I assume, have been a little disappointed in the Obama team the last few days. That a constitutional law professor would not lead the charge on the restoration of constitutional rights and transparency in government is something for him to be ashamed of.

But this article has put things in perspective a little bit for me. The fact that we have someone like Secretary Chu in high office (and many others like him) channeling policy and money is nothing short of a cause for celebration and hope after a very dark time in our country.