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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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[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days 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.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago

Conan o brien is pretty funny

[–] Midnight_Pearl@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago

tom morello is pretty cool i guess

[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

WEB Du Bois

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] elpaso@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days 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.

[–] curmudgeonthefrog@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

Case and point, UC Berkeley

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

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

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's not an Ivy League, but yes.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days 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

[–] Wendy_Pleakley@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

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

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] shath@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] shath@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

the wind changed

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Picture I found in google from the Los Angeles review

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tom Lehrer wrote some funny songs?

[–] someone@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

He was never funny.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Rage Against The Machine? lol

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Ivy league style is pretty sharp.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

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