Princeton University
About Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747 and then to its Mercer County campus in Princeton nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University.
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Some guys at Princeton University, Paul Elson and Morgan Tingley, decided that they wanted to do a survey and see how many mountains do in fact have pointy peaks. They took satellite data from 182 mountain ranges around the world and discovered that 68% of these mountains didn't have a pointy peak.
from 109: No Such Thing As A Speared Shrimp, 2016-04-15 at 00:14:10 · read transcript
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Hallie didn't discover Halley's comet had been known about a bit earlier. So this is the Stigler Law of Economy and it was coined by a sociologist who was called Robert Merton. Who named it after someone else. These two guys, when they did this, by the way, they were studying at Princeton University. The reason I came across this fact is because I found out that you studied at Princeton University. You studied German there.
No Such Thing As An X, 2023-08-24 · listen
So this is the Stigler's Law of Economy, and it was coined by a sociologist who was called Robert Merton. LAUGHTER Who named it after someone else, yeah? These two guys, when they did this, by the way, they were studying at Princeton University. The reason I came across this fact is because I found out that you studied at Princeton University for a new study in German there.
493: No Such Thing As An X, 2023-08-24 · listen
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