The New York Times published a great article about the serious scientific credentials of some of hollywood's most celebrated stars, Natalie Portman among them. As a student at Syosset High School on Long Island back in the late 1990s, Ms. Portman made it all the way to the semifinal rounds of the Intel Science Talent Search competition. Her project was a new “environmentally friendly” method of converting waste into useful forms of energy. She also went to Harvard University and studi…