Developmental biologist and stem cell guru James Thomson recently made the Time 100 list of The World's Most Influential People.

He shares the honor with the likes of writer/director Judd Apatow, songstress Mariah Carey, Brangelina (a part of me just died for typing that idiotic name), media mogul Rupert Murdoch, George W. Bush, the Dalai Lama (Bush and the Dalai Lama on the same list...apocalypse?), Facebook mastermind Mark Zuckerberg, and the stars of the never-ending story "Campaign 2008" Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

Wonder if he went to the party?  James Thomson and Miley Cyrus simultaneously reaching for the clam dip?  Priceless.  

Not that he'd recognize Ms. Vanity Fair.  Thomson probably wouldn't recognize half these people since he's too busy toiling away in his bunker, oh, you know, changing the face of the medical world.

While Mariah Carey was off gettin' hitched to that dude from Wild 'N Out, Zuckerberg was hatching new ways to hypnotize the collegiate masses and Miley Cyrus was working to placate enraged soccer moms, Thomson was transforming skin cells into pluripotent stem cells with the potential to treat and prevent fatal disease, not to mention the potential to quell religious and political debates that have plagued the technology.

Thomson is the man.