I was about to comment on the short PhD in "2-and-a-bit years" -- and how the UK expectation for PhD program duration is so different from in the US. And it wa

I was about to comment on the short PhD in "2-and-a-bit years" -- and how the UK expectation for PhD program duration is so different from in the US. And it wasn't to say that he's a genius. It's that the program is planned to be shorter, and in fact, there's less funding available to go longer even if you wanted to.