Jezebel: Stanford

Do You Have What It Takes to Win a Love Competition?

Cassie Murdoch — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:45:00 EST

Have you ever tried to love someone as hard as you could for five minutes? It sounds like a strange thing to attempt, but that's exactly what the people in a study at the Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging were asked to do while they sat in an fMRI machine. They scanned people of varying ages, and the person whose brain registered the most love "won." There was no prize, other than bragging rights, but in watching these poignant, fascinating interviews that Brent Hoff did with all the subjects, it becomes clear that they all found the experience unexpectedly moving and learned something about what it means to love and be loved. More »

When a Lady Hurts, She Hurts More Than a Man

Cassie Murdoch — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:10:00 EST

The idea that women are hardcore rocks who can withstand any amount of physical pain with serenity and fortitude has been around for a long time. After all, we have to survive monthly go-rounds with monster menstrual cramps and then many of us have to push a giant baby skull through our most delicate parts. We do need to tolerate a lot of pain, but it turns out that doesn't mean we don't feel it. In fact, according to a new study, it turns out that women actually feel pain more intensely than men do. More »

Stanford Grads Reflect On Steve Jobs's Hungry, Foolish Speech

Anna North — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:00:00 EDT

Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford commencement speech was already widely cited before his death — now that he's died, it's shaping up to be one of the most famous graduation speeches in recent memory, second perhaps to David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" address at Kenyon. I graduated from Stanford in 2005, and I got in touch with some of my classmates for their reactions on the speech, then and now. More »

Why Women In Computer Science Matter

Anna North — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:05:00 EDT

Last week, Harvard celebrated a record number of female students declaring a computer science major. But the school — and the field — may still have a ways to go. More »

When I Came Out: Three Girls Tell Their Stories About Being Gay In College

Jessica Goldstein — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:30:00 EDT

You know what's kind of funny about sexuality? It's surprisingly tough to talk about. Sex, that's easy (although certainly you could argue that, well, why talk about it…) Actions are simple and straightforward like that. More »

Personal Howl

Anna Holmes — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:10:00 EDT

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Forget Kinsey: Victorian Woman Was The Original Sexpert

Sadie Stein — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:40:00 EDT

For all the scholarly credit shot Kinsey's way, new research proves that Stanford hygiene professor Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher was doing it well before he was. More »

Tennessee Lady Vols Trounce Stanford To Win NCAA Title

Jessica G. — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Despite suffering a twice dislocated shoulder in last week's game against Texas A&M, last night, Tennessee Lady Vols star forward Candace Parker led her team to a 64-48 victory over Stanford in the NCAA basketball final with 17 points and 9 rebounds. This is the Lady Vols eighth NCAA title, underscoring coach Pat Summitt's history of excellence: Summitt, 55, is the winningest coach in NCAA history, according to the New York Times; she has 982 career wins (more than any other male or female coach), and her 8 NCAA titles puts her up there with the pantheon of great coaches like Bob Knight, Dean Smith and John Wooden. Oh, and Summitt is also a total badass off-court. More »