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About Harvard

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636, and named Harvard College in 1639 in honor of its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

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There was a study in 1973 at Harvard and they got some cheetahs and they flew them over to Harvard and they made them run on treadmills with thermometers stuck up their bums.

from No Such Thing As A Smart Cheetah At Harvard, 2021-03-19 at 00:04:44 · read transcript

Other times Harvard came up

  1. There's a lot of controversy whether that is just a completely random number that they made up, or whether there's actually any science to it whatsoever. There is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard called I'm in Lee. She reckons having spoken to the people who came up with the idea that they chose 10,000 because the Japanese character for 10,000 looks a little bit like a man walking.

    387: No Such Thing As The Northern Lights, 2021-08-20 · listen

  2. There is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard called Aymin Lee, and she reckons, having spoken to the people who came up with the idea that they chose 10,000, because the Japanese character for 10,000 looks a little bit like a man walking, and they thought it would be a.

    No Such Thing As The Northern Lights, 2021-08-20 · listen

  3. This is, I've sort of been brainwashed because there was that study that was quite famous in 2004 by that Harvard professor and then a book based on it called Born to Run which is a really good book but sort of about how we are, we're born to run and our feet are made for it and if you look at we.

    315: No Such Thing As Tedious Moss, 2020-04-03 · listen

  4. Where you learn all this stuff? Had no idea this place existed. Hamburger University. McDonald's has hamburger university. Is it in Hamburg? No it's in Harvard. Sorry it's not in Harvard it's considered to be the Harvard of it. It's in Elk Grove Village Illinois and everyone says it's the Harvard of the fast food universities. How many other properties? They have 5,000 students. They have 12 interactive educational teams. They have in-house professors.

    60: No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement, 2015-05-08 · listen

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