Khan, 36, started Khan Academy in a closet at his home in Silicon Valley, but with backing from the likes of Bill Gates and venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife Ann, has expanded into a 36-person company serving 10 million students around the world with free video talks on the Internet explaining everything from calculus to chemistry.

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The God particle is an integral solution to explaining a theory of everything, and thus serves a useful purpose.

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He said the THH becomes the family's network administrator, solely responsible for walking around and explaining to everyone how everything works, and for maintaining the network, troubleshooting and fixing it when it breaks.

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As the terrains fly by beneath us, however, we begin to sense that Kaplan has laid out a vast, Ptolemaic astrolabe, with cycles and epicycles and turning inner orbits and mechanics of the sky, elaborating everything and explaining little.

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Regulators "were privy to everything as it was happening, " he said, explaining the last days of Lehman in his prepared remarks.

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