Duke University
About Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established the Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.
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The family minister wrote to a parapsychology lab at Duke University when the boy was 14 years old, so 1949, and said that his bed shook when he was in it.
from No Such Thing As Borkenstein's Monster, 2022-09-01 at 00:12:54 · read transcript
Other times Duke University came up
I would. You might. Basically this was a question asked by a child who was five and a half years old and clearly interested in what happens next. They went to mathematics professors at Duke University and they said, well, everything would fall apart. They said, I imagine they said, stop wasting my time. I have more important research beginning on this. They said it's really interesting because basically if there's no six, there can't be any numbers higher than six.
205: No Such Thing As The Number Six, 2018-02-23 · listen
No this is the thing I would you might but basically this was a question asked by a child who was five and a half years old and clearly interested in what happens next and they went to mathematics professors at Duke University and they said well everything would fall apart they said I imagine they said stop wasting my time I have more important for social beginning on me they said it's really interesting because basically if there's no six there can't be.
No Such Thing As The Number Six, 2018-02-23 · listen
They split all the characters up in class, so you have your upper class, your middle class and your lower class, and they decided that the depiction of working class was unrealistic and that the seven dwarfs would not be singing cheerfully as they walked down to the mine. James, who were the scientists? They were just people at Duke University in North Carolina. To be honest, they are, you know, they're cartoons aren't they?
105: No Such Thing As Pancakes For Perverts, 2016-03-18 · listen
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