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fgf on Aug 24, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the Worl...

"Three and a half years and 70 countries later, I've gotten the equivalent of a Ph.D in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth."

A contradiction in terms.

ramchip on Aug 25, 2010 | [–]

I'm not sure if that's what you meant, but possibly an explanation to the downvoters: a Ph.D. is a specialization; "specialization in general knowledge" doesn't compute.

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