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Behind the Scenes With the Stanford Laptop Orchestra
The computer geeks in the Stanford Laptop Orchestra celebrate ten years of music-making with a concert this weekend. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1abdc70da4a86262ab0a5d/master/pass/Orchestra-MAIN.jpg
A former Stanford dean reveals 7 ways parents can raise successful kids
TED Conference/Flickr Julie Lythcott-Haims is the opposite of a helicopter parent. A former dean of freshmen at Stanford, from 2002 to 2012, and the author of “How to Raise an Adult,” Lythcott-Haims has seen time and again that sheltered kids don’t make for capable adults. She has built a career on encouraging parents to take […]
33 photos of Google’s rise from a Stanford dorm room to world domination (GOOG, GOOGL)
REUTERS/Rebecca Naden Next month, for the first time since 2001, Eric Schmidt won’t have an executive position at Google or one of its affiliated companies. On Thursday afternoon, Schmidt announced he’ll be stepping down from his position as executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. He won’t be leaving Alphabet entirely — he’ll remain on […]
The 12 best business books of the year, according to Stanford Business School
matteo.merzi / Flickr A good book is like food for the soul. When you want to curl up by the fire with a truly great one, look no further than this list furnished by members of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. If you’ve got an entrepreneur or two in your life, these might make […]
A Stanford researcher is pioneering a dramatic shift in how we treat depression — and you can try her new tool right now
Flickr/Jane Rahman Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and it can kill. But scientists know surprisingly little about it. Even with awareness programs like World Mental Health Day, which happens every year on October 10, our knowledge of the condition is extremely limited. We do know, however, that talking seems to help — […]
Stanford built a ‘4D’ camera for cars, robots and VR
A team of Stanford scientists have created what could be the perfect “eye” for autonomous vehicles and delivery drones thus far. It’s a 4D camera that can capture nearly 140 degrees of information, allowing it to gather more information than conventional cameras in a single image. The researchers call their design the “first-ever single-lens, wide […]
See how Stanford overtook Harvard as the most selective college in the US, in one chart
If it seems like gaining acceptance into selective colleges seems harder today than a decade ago, that’s because it is. And at a dizzying pace. Harvard and Stanford reject nearly 95% of the students who apply. But that wasn’t the case two decades ago when the acceptance rate at both schools was in the double digits. For […]
A Stanford engineer is making flexible skin that can ‘feel’ — and it’s straight out of Westworld
HBO Ask Zhenan Bao why she went from designing batteries to creating synthetic, human-like skin and she’ll give you a simple answer. “I decided it was time to start helping people,” Bao, a chemical engineering professor at Stanford, tells Business Insider. Bao’s 17-member Stanford team is developing is flexible, stretchable skin that can sense touch and temperature. In those […]
Stanford researchers use a compound in fertilizer to create inexpensive battery
Ever the incubator for innovative ideas, Stanford University announced this week its engineers successfully developed a new type of low-cost battery capable of storing renewable energy. A breakthrough, no doubt, but what is particularly impressive is that the engineers used urea — a compound typically found in fertilizer or the urine of mammals — to […]
