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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Genuine question. I was listening to shit about Facebook and made me think how much damage Harvard has done to the world just from that alone.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago

It allows the scions of the rich and powerful to get to know each other before they get scattered around the globe to wreak regional miseries upon the rest of us, like LinkedIn but interpersonal and vastly more cursed.

Oh wait you asked for the good part.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

Conan o brien is pretty funny

[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

tom morello is pretty cool i guess

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

WEB Du Bois

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

If you posed this question to a brick wall, you’d get the correct answer.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Stanford needs to be abolished. Many people are saying this.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

That's not an Ivy League, but yes.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

"new ivy" bullshit that duke and vanderbilt like to wave around

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

This got me into researching Jonas Salk (the inventor of the polio vaccine).

I know he didn't want to patent it, but apparently his employer attempted to (Pittsburgh school of Medicine) and the patent attorney they retained shot it down.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Nothing that couldn't have been done better by public institutions had they had the same funding. Most of the big research they get to claim is because they already have shit tons of money to buy the best newest equipment and pay for 10+ postdocs per lab. Even then they don't actually pay the grad students or postdocs (who do all the research labor) all that different compared to public universities.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

yeah I was going to say plenty of hard science has come out of them but you're exactly right. They also get to choose from the very best of applicants due to their reputation & exclusivity, but that also isn't inherent to the ivy league as private institutions.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Case and point, UC Berkeley

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Well there's also been a bunch of scientific fraud so that's a positive, right?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I think my face has been stuck like that for the last couple years

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

the wind changed

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Poaching Einstein and Gödel and others when germany started its genocide against Jewish people was at least neutral. Despite the motivation being entirely self-interested

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Ivy League? Wasn't that part of the original Pokemon anime?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Tom Lehrer wrote some funny songs?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

He was never funny.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Picture I found in google from the Los Angeles review

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Ivy league style is pretty sharp.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yale discovered free energy, n body problem heuristics, and suppressor T cells. Cornell created progesterone based contraceptives, discovered free energy, developed the heimlich maneuver, and did research into 3d printed organs. Harvard developed the smallpox vaccine, anesthesia, appendectomies for appendicitis, EKGs, insulin, iron lungs, pap smears, human blood storage, and some other things.

So quite a bit.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

free energy? Like the thermo/chemistry concept or the pseudoscience conspiracy theory?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Rage Against The Machine? lol

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm applying to teach at Yale. The rejection letter will be good for a lot of students

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