[robomatik]

awesome post! thanks.

[exist]

"I feel it's a waste of time playing video games because it's not helping humanity in any way," says the 11-year-old, who wants to use his knowledge to change the world.

Apparently he's never played Grand Theft Auto.

[rom]

Amazing! I STARTED College at 12, and people think that’s impressive. Youngest kid I went to college with was 10.

My hat’s off to this kid, may he go far in life.

[Crolis]

Hmm, astrophysics, martial arts...he just needs a rock band and a medical degree and he can be the next Buckaroo Banzai. He may just invent the Oscillation Overthruster.

[TChris]

Albert Einstein and Bruce Lee are among his idols.

Beating the living crap out of difficult physics problems, all without a stunt double.

[tired1]

How was he allowed to get through the system? By my senior year I had finished my freshman year at UConn, they wouldn’t let me leave! I had half days of study hall and got a part time job. That was my first inkling that there was something structurally wrong with the system.

[M203M4]

child of a Taiwanese mother and an Israeli father.

He is fortunate the genders were not reversed! /ducking

I am always leery when I read someone has an urge to "help humanity" - not because it isn't an honorable goal, but because reality almost exclusively ends up showcasing a more unfortunate legacy for those both harboring these intentions and being so able to effect wide-scale change.

[ChicagahAl]

The NEA let this kid fall through the cracks. I’ll bet they are really upset about it.

[autumnraine]

Alright, where is the appropriate Doogie Howser pic?

[BerryDingle]

Hope he turns down an invite to the White House.

[Political Junkie Too]

...Cavalin combines his exceptional smarts with fearsome martial arts abilities...

To paraphrase Milton Berle, "I'll kill you one times ten to the seventh power times!"

-PJ

[Joe 6-pack]

Moshe Kai Cavalin sounds like the next Dr. Buckaroo Banzai...

Born in London in 1950, the son of two scientists: Masado Banzai, a brilliant Japanese research physicist whose work in theoretical quantum mechanics is reported to have "rattled" Albert Einstein, and Sandra Willoughby, the daughter of the eccentric Scottish-born Texas mathematician Edward McKay Willoughby. Sandra Willoughby fell in love with Masado Banzai when she was sixteen and married him twelve years later, after becoming an expert in her own right in the field of negative mass propulsion. The couple fled Japan at the outbreak of World War II and eventually settled in Texas. Their son grew up in Colorado and Arizona and was named "Buckaroo" because of his father's love for the American West.

In 1946 Masado Banzai and Sandra Willoughby joined forces with Masado's old friend and colleague, Professor Toichi Hikita, who shared their belief that one day man would be able to pass unharmed through solid matter. Their researches culminated in 1955 in the Texas desert, when Dr. Banzai took the controls of a jet car equipped with an early version of the Oscillation Overthruster. But the experiment ended tragically: Buckaroo Banzai's parents were killed in an explosion (caused by sabotage planned by criminal mastermind Hanoi Xan) as the five-year-old child looked on. Hikita raised young Buckaroo, using the entire world as his classroom, and the boy grew up to be, among other things, an extraordinarily skilled neurosurgeon.

Dissatisfied with a life devoted exclusively to medicine, Buckaroo Banzai perfected a wide range of skills. He designed and drove high-powered automobiles. He studied bujutsu and particle physics. His skill with a sixgun was reputed to eclipse that of Wyatt Earp. He spoke a dozen languages and wrote songs in all of them. His band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, was one of the most popular, hard-rocking bar bands in east New Jersey (Buckaroo plays electric guitar and english horn), though its members (bearing names like Rawhide, Reno, the Swede, Perfect Tommy, Big Norse, and Pecos Bill) were not professional musicians at all, but rather cartographers and botanists, linguists and propellant engineers, an entomologist and an epidemiologist. All of them experts in their fields of endeavor, they were drawn to Buckaroo.

[ASOC]

what’s the big deal? 3 years for an aa/ as degree - is the East LA college some kind of brain trust or special in some way?

good for this kid, but what will he do now?

[Sloth]

"I feel it's a waste of time playing video games because it's not helping humanity in any way," says the 11-year-old, who wants to use his knowledge to change the world.

What a little snob. Well, in his defense, that sort of thinking has probably been pressed on him by others and he doesn't know any better.

[bgill]

That book is only going to be bought by his aunts. He obviously can’t relate to kids and I bet they aren’t going to appreciate being preached to by boy wonder. Kids like to play video games, perhaps too much, but that’s life as a kid. How is martial arts helping humanity, huh?

[FreepShop1]

child of a Taiwanese mother and an Israeli father.

#2 and #1 on the Bell Curve.

[Deb]

Great work, Moshe!

Of course, I have to say here, that both my dogs could graduate from L.A. Community and one of them eats her own poop.

But, great work, Moshe!