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The issue is creating and maintaining critical mass for the superorganism of people, opportunity, money, and ideas. One such example is Stanford University and
by sacnoradhq 3y ago
The issue is creating and maintaining critical mass for the superorganism of people, opportunity, money, and ideas. One such example is Stanford University and Palo Alto, arguably a mini "Venice" of our times by the deliberate sowing of the seeds by the Stanford family post 1884. Interestingly, A. Leland Stanford became something of a socialist in his later years. Jane Stanford either crossed paths with a sociopath or was detested enough to be murdered by one of her employees in Hawaii after a failed attempt in California.
- feoren 3y agoStanford is extremely impressive in the STEM fields, but everything that comes out of its humanities departments is some of the worst science I've ever seen in my life. If I see a humanities study from Stanford, I know immediately it's going to be 100% utter bullshit. It's an embarrassment to the institution and to academia as a whole. So I question whether or not it's really the institution itself that allows for its success in the STEM fields, or whether it's just a self-perpetuating cycle.