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Stanford's new president talks sports - terry - 10-21-2017
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne devoted an entire blog post to Stanford athletes' accomplishments in fall sports.
https://quadblog.stanford.edu/2017/10/bryce-love/
Re: Stanford's new president talks sports - Stymie - 10-21-2017
I would be shocked if our President actually wrote that PR pap.
Re: Stanford's new president talks sports - FarmDad.01 - 10-21-2017
How things have changed in two decades. In Late Spring 1997, my ex-wife and I were invited to a New York City reception for parents of incoming frosh, among them our younger daughter. The chablis-and-brie event was staged at one of the Ivy League alumni clubs in Midtown.
 To start the formal portion of the welcome, a Stanford official (male, mid-40s) tinkled his wine glass and asked, How has Stanford recently made big news?
 Nervous silence.
 So I ventured, "Tiger Woods?" in honor of his recent historic first Masters victory.
 The Stanford official eye-rolled me before claiming that LSJU scientists had just unMars-ed conclusive proof of prior life on the Red Planet. And no, his name was not Gen. John Kelly.
Re: Stanford's new president talks sports - washingtonismoney - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 11:59 AM)Stymie link Wrote:I would be shocked if our President actually wrote that PR pap.
Sure, but that he wants his PR stuff to be on sports is meaningful.
Re: Stanford's new president talks sports - terry - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 12:55 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:that he wants his PR stuff to be on sports is meaningful.
Yes, exactly.
Re: Stanford's new president talks sports - Mick - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 12:30 PM)FarmDad.01 link Wrote:How things have changed in two decades. In Late Spring 1997, my ex-wife and I were invited to a New York City reception for parents of incoming frosh, among them our younger daughter. The chablis-and-brie event was staged at one of the Ivy League alumni clubs in Midtown.
 To start the formal portion of the welcome, a Stanford official (male, mid-40s) tinkled his wine glass and asked, How has Stanford recently made big news?
 Nervous silence.
 So I ventured, "Tiger Woods?" in honor of his recent historic first Masters victory.
 The Stanford official eye-rolled me before claiming that LSJU scientists had just unMars-ed conclusive proof of prior life on the Red Planet. And no, his name was not Gen. John Kelly.
Well, Tom Watson had won it 16 years earlier. So maybe not that big a deal, in his rolling eyes... ::) .
Still, I like the new President's embrace of sports.
Re: Stanford's new president talks sports - CTcard - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 12:30 PM)FarmDad.01 link Wrote:How things have changed in two decades. In Late Spring 1997, my ex-wife and I were invited to a New York City reception for parents of incoming frosh, among them our younger daughter. The chablis-and-brie event was staged at one of the Ivy League alumni clubs in Midtown.
 To start the formal portion of the welcome, a Stanford official (male, mid-40s) tinkled his wine glass and asked, How has Stanford recently made big news?
 Nervous silence.
 So I ventured, "Tiger Woods?" in honor of his recent historic first Masters victory.
 The Stanford official eye-rolled me before claiming that LSJU scientists had just unMars-ed conclusive proof of prior life on the Red Planet. And no, his name was not Gen. John Kelly.
Well, if a Stanford researcher had found conclusive proof life on Mars, then in my opinion that would have been bigger Stanford news than Tiger Woods winning his first major.
However, Tiger did actually win the Masters. No Stanford researcher found conclusive evidence of life on Mars in 1997.
Despite some apparently contradictory results from the 1976 Viking mission, the consensus is that no positive evidence has been found that life ever existed on Mars.
In fact, I wonder what that Stanford official was referring to. In summer and late fall the Mars Pathfinder missions landed, and they found evidence there once was large amounts of water on Mars, possibly a requirement for life. But the timing doesn't seem right for that result.
Re: Stanford's new president talks sports - FarmDad.01 - 10-21-2017
Please note the date on this press release, to which the Stanford rep apparently referenced:
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/96/960806marsfossil.html
Re: Stanford's new president talks sports - CTcard - 10-21-2017
(10-21-2017, 02:40 PM)FarmDad.01 link Wrote:Please note the date on this press release, to which the Stanford rep apparently referenced:
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/96/960806marsfossil.html
Thanks.
That was interesting. Unfortunately, it appears this was later decided not to be good evidence for life on Mars. Here is a short article that touches on the topic:
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/mars_life_feature_1015.html
Quote:In July, 1996, it was announced that Dr. David McKay, along with a team of scientists at Johnson Space Center (a division of NASA), had discovered possible fossils of bacteria in a meteorite named ALH84001 that came from Mars. ... While many scientists were excited at first, much of the proof offered fell apart. NASA said that after two years of study "a number of lines of evidence have gone away".
But, once you noted this I remember some hubbub at the time. Zare was on my original thesis committee. I defended around this time, and he had to beg off due to scheduling difficulties. Possibly related to this experiment, but my memory is a little fuzzy.Â