Cornell
About Cornell
Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson White in 1865. Since its founding, Cornell University has been a co-educational and nonsectarian institution. As of fall 2024, the student body included 16,128 undergraduate and 10,665 postgraduate students from all 50 U.S. states and 130 countries.
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There's a tradition at Cornell: if you happen to have shared the surname of the co-founder and first president of Cornell, who was a guy called Andrew Dixon White, then you had to just be called Andy because he was called Andy. They shared the surname White, so he got given that at Cornell, and then the rest of his life that's what his wife called him.
from No Such Thing As Ballet On A Staircase, 2023-06-29 at 00:19:57 · read transcript
Other times Cornell came up
He's done a kind of calculation of what eels would get you today, today's money. He said that he worked out, because he's at Cornell University, that if you had to pay to go to Cornell University, you would need between 106,612 and 213,024 eels, either of which represents a number of eels that the Cornell versus office is ill-prepared to handle. He did say that an Amazon Prime membership, which is $99 a year, would cost only 150 to 300 eels.
303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column, 2020-01-10 · listen
It's not a short journey. Nobody had checked how their hearts and lungs actually cope with this journey. A team of scientists led by Robin Ragdler from Cornell, realised that we should probably look into whether or not they're... They're like, I'm sorry! ...crowing the outside of the name. So they held 12 riders upside down by their feet for an experiment from a crane. and they're also dated obviously, but they were just testing their heart and lungs and it turns out that It's much better for it to be upside down because when a rhino is on its side their lungs are a bit distorted You know the gravity means oh yeah, yeah, the lungs are not getting equal amounts of oxygen for the air exchange and all that Gas exchange, but when they're upside down it is equal because they're just upside down Lovely, so they when they're upside down, it is equal because they're just upside down.
513: No Such Thing As Upside-Down Space Rain, 2024-01-11 · listen
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- Slough · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 42.4492, -76.4839