The S in Stanford's original SAB did not stand for "Scientific":
'Among her advantages in their increasingly frosty relationship was her continued communication with her dead husband and son – ‘my two spiritual advisers’, as she called them – whose deceased status rendered them infallible. Under their guidance she laid out a pedagogic vision requiring Stanford students to be taught that ‘every one born on earth has a soul germ’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n23/james-lasdun/stop-all-the-cocks
@NicoleCRust @cyrilpedia @SussilloDavid @Russpoldrack "Jane Stanford Way" -- that is our new address! (and the Bldg. is now 420) ;)
@NicoleCRust @cyrilpedia @knutson_brain @SussilloDavid My understanding is that our dept had until recently an endowed chair for psychic research - maybe @wandell remembers the history of that? This is a fun graphic piece about the history of psychic research at Stanford: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-curious-case-of-thomas-welton-stanford
@NicoleCRust @cyrilpedia @knutson_brain @Russpoldrack
Wait, so those flecks that appear in my eyes when I stare at the sky *aren't* soul germs?
@cyrilpedia @knutson_brain @SussilloDavid @Russpoldrack Fascinating & spicy history of Stanford.