University of Alberta
About University of Alberta
The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, the university's first president. It was enabled through the Post-secondary Learning Act. The university is considered a "comprehensive academic and research university" (CARU), which means that it offers a range of academic and professional programs that generally lead to undergraduate and graduate level credentials.
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There is now no point in playing drafts, because there is a correct way to play it. This was worked out by a computer games expert called Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta. At the peak of his work, there were 200 desktop computers playing drafts full-time to work out the combinations of how to play.
from No Such Thing As The iSausage, 2020-06-22 at 00:43:37 · read transcript
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Why? Why? There's a study that's been done by researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada and Georgetown, and they studied a Canadian province, which had 7,000 lottery winners. What they found was in areas where people have won the lottery, the bankruptcy rate goes up by 6%. This might be because people keep it a secret, the fact that they've won the lottery. so people borrow more around them because they want to keep up with the Joneses as it were they think oh wow they've got a yacht so I think we better get a yacht and they start borrowing more money and then they take more manager we live in the middle of Canada but they take more and they borrow more and then they're likely to go bust I suppose it doesn't even have to be a secret right even if you know they've won the lottery if you see them buying something nice then you want to keep up yeah exactly and I think didn't one of the studies find that the neighbours would buy conspicuous goods because obviously you're buying goods that you want people to see, you want people to know that you're doing as well as those neighbours who won the lottery.
No Such Thing As The Shark Tooth Fairy, 2019-01-18 · listen
There's a study that's been done by researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada and Georgetown and they studied a Canadian province which had 7,000 lottery winners and what they found was in areas where people have won the lottery the bankruptcy rate goes up by 6% and this might be.
252: No Such Thing As The Shark Tooth Fairy, 2019-01-18 · listen
That's people who work for jeans companies, not so much microbiologists who tend to think that you probably should wash them because there's going to be lots of bacteria on there. How much bacteria are we talking? So there was a student at the University of Alberta called Josh Lay, or Lee, and he, as an experiment, wore the same pair of jeans for 15 months without washing them. After two weeks, he found that he had around 1,000 to 2,000 bacteria per square centimeter.
14: No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair Of Jeans, 2014-06-07 · listen
There are lots of people who think that you shouldn't wash jeans because it fades the colors and it spoils the fabric. but that's people who work for genes companies, not so much microbiologists, who tend to think that you probably should wash them because there's going to be lots of bacteria on there. How much bacteria are we talking? So there was a student at the University of Alberta called Josh Lay or Lee, and he as an experiment wore the same pair of jeans for 15 months without washing them. After two weeks, he found that he had around 1,000 to 2,000 bacteria per squirre. centimeter.
No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair Of Jeans, 2014-06-07 · listen
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