Bill Maher

So, you know, but I will tell you, I'll give you the positives, I'll give you the negatives.

I'll be real direct with you.

I've been many places in my academic career.

And I will tell you that while there are other, many other excellent places, they're,

are very, very few, if any, places in the world where you find people who are just absolutely focused on bringing their science, which often impacts healthcare, to the next level with the utmost degree of rigor.

My colleagues are amazing.

I'm telling you.

I mean, I've got colleagues like Karl Deisseroth who developed ways to image and modify cellular activity across the board.

Everything from humans, rat, cat, monkey, bat for research purposes.

People who were blind are seeing again as a consequence of that work.

I've got colleagues building artificial retinas.

I've got colleagues who are figuring out in the psychology department that are really parsing this notion of like Ali Crum mindsets, which is a setting for the mind, how to navigate stress, not just thinking that stress is going to dissolve you into a puddle of tears, but how to harness stress into performance.

She's a D1 athlete, clinical psychologist, and runs a major research lab, and mom, and happily married.

I mean, these people are like on a whole other level.

Okay, it's also a place where people are very collegial.

Now, are there a lot of administrators?

Yes.

Are there a lot of beautiful lawns and palm trees?

Also, yes.

But I'll tell you the real strength of Stanford.