We love Natalie Portman. She says things like, "I'd rather be smart than a movie star" and then proves it by going to Harvard. This week, she appears as cover star and guest editor of ... Scholastic Math, a maths magazine to encourage teenagers to accept the wonder of maths into their lives.

This puts Natalie on a par in the ace role model stakes with actor Danica McKellar, aka Winnie in that ever-popular The Wonder Years: graduated summa cum laude in maths from UCLA, no less: provides online tutoring for her fans; has (hold your breath) written a book for teenage girls showing that mathematics is relevant, fun and possibly even glamourous, considering that Natalie is saying it. What can we say? Except that nerd girls rule.
The Guardian