1. I don't think it's an accident that Stanford has become the vector point for high-brow Covid-19 contrarianism. The whole history and milieu of the university prepared it for this squalid moment.
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5. Some more thoughts on Stanford, the warping effect of big money on higher ed, and Covid-19 contrarianism.https://www.thenation.com/article/society/stanford-lost-soul-coronavirus/ …
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CIA a bit further off to the east.
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That's a bit of a misnomer. Stanford was built on a rock. Arthur Rock, who started the VC boom with Intel. Everything else is a result of Moore's Law.
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Don't forget DOE -- Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory is one of the crown jewels -- and to the South.
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I think you have this chronologically backwards! Stanford came first, built on railroad money: the fruit-growing Santa Cara Valley became Silicon Valley partly because Stanford was there also cheap land and a work force). Fun fact, Stanford was free to attend at first.
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The Appitaline Hill.
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