Stanford University
About Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr.
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One of the leading theories is that in 1971 and 1972, a first transaction was made between students at Stanford University and MIT, and they were selling weed to each other. The first transaction potentially was a drug deal.
from 286: No Such Thing As A Banana With Wifi, 2019-09-13 at 00:24:42 · read transcript
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All the people did. In 19th century, very unvashionable. Before we move on, Freddie, have you got anything to add? So the tweet that was on Quicabedia the other day was that a university in Oregon has plagiarized the section on plagiarism in its student handbook from the section on plagiarism in Stanford University's handbook. Wow, so good. We took that tweet from OMG Facts. Let's move on to fact number two, and this fact is my one.
No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair Of Jeans, 2014-06-07 · listen
They're all just rusty, yeah. Yeah, if you see an insect, it's most likely holding its breath. Cool. I was reading a 2016 Stanford University study about sighing, and sighing's really interesting. Sighing is basically just a breathing in and then breathing in again instead of breathing out. You're just taking in twice as much air. The reason you do it, or one of the reasons you do it, is to inflate the alveoli more than it usually gets because your alveoli are always sort of collapsing, like little ralveoli, the tiny little sacks on the edge of your lungs that absorb the oxygen into the rest of your body, aren't they?
No Such Thing As A 24-Minute Podcast, 2018-08-24 · listen
To make the Soviets think that you're doing these crazy things, when actually you're useful things, which are tiny little listening devices that are on things that actually go into embassies they don't think of. Yeah. Yeah. On companies buying on you, but for good reasons, for health purposes, Stanford University have created this smart toilet. I think we've researched this for QI this year, but it is pretty amazing. It scans employees' bums.
365: No Such Thing As A Smart Cheetah At Harvard, 2021-03-19 · listen
Soviets think that you're doing these crazy things when actually you're useful things, which are, you know, tiny little listening devices that are on things that actually go into embassies they don't think of. Yeah. Yeah. On companies spying on you, but for good reasons, for health purposes, Stanford University have created this smart toilet. I think we've researched us for QI this year, but it is pretty amazing. It scans employees' bums.
No Such Thing As A Smart Cheetah At Harvard, 2021-03-19 · listen
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