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Re:Uni. of Alberta researchers solve puzzle that baffled sci... by slavik81 on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:29PM (#13360933)
There's a surprisingly large number of Iranians doing great work in Canadian universities. I'm not particularly well-versed in why, but it seems that smart people have both means and motive to emigrate.
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Re:Uni. of Alberta researchers solve puzzle that baffled sci... by rossng on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:42PM (#13361061)
Iran is a pretty highly-developed country with a population of 83 million people, so I don't think that's too surprising.

There's a perception gap due to the western world's treatment of Iran. Maybe we shouldn't have overthrown their government and installed a dictator in the 1950s.

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Re:Uni. of Alberta researchers solve puzzle that baffled sci... by farhang on Monday January 09, 2017 @07:33PM (#13361416)
Iran's brain drain is the reason

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/02/02/why_does_iran_ha...

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Re:Uni. of Alberta researchers solve puzzle that baffled sci... by stuxnet79 on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:54PM (#13361160)
Can confirm this, and this spans all fields of study. They are doing great work. Canadian universities are choke full of immigrants of all kinds though (I'm one).
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