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"The London Evening Standard chose the Francis Crick Institute as the venue to unveil its annual list of the 1000 most influential people in London this evening...
This year's edition of The 1000, which has been published in association with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and the Francis Crick Institute, has a special focus on London's contribution to science, medicine and global humanitarism
Paul Nurse , the director of the Crick , was listed as one of the capital's 10 most influential people. Renowned scientist Stephen Hawking and the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai were also recognised.. for their contributions
Demis Hassabis - DeepMind co-founder - did his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL in 2009 under the supervision of Eleanor Maguire - Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL where she is also a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
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Maguire heads the Memory and Space research laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL
Maguire's team mainly employ ecologically valid or 'real life' experimental paradigms to examine brain-behaviour relationships; eg.. using VR to examine navigation investigating autobiographical memories of people's ..ability to imagine fictitious and future scenes and events..
Perhaps the most famous of these is her series of studies on London taxi drivers,where she documented changes in hippocampal structure associated w/acquiring the knowledge of London's layout. Aredistribution of grey matter was indicated in London Taxi Drivers compared to controls
"The hippocampi of London taxi drivers swell as they learn the city's streets."
Heinz Pagels obtained his PhD in elementary particle physics from Stanford University under the guidance of Sidney Drell - an arms control expert
Interview of Sidney Drell by Finn Aaserud on 1986 July 1,
Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics,
College Park, MD USA, aip.org/history-progra…
In 1960, Drell was a founding participant in the Jasons , a secret group, then made up of physicists, that had been called together by Charles Townes to solve difficult problems for the Defense Department
"The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Calvinist, and Lutheran traditions,..
Later I'll go further into what role those morons at Cambridge Analytica have played in this current state of affairs in this #TheatreOfTheAbsurd
For now let's stick with The United Church of Christ (UCC)..
"A controversy arose over former U.S. president Barack Obama speaking at UCC gatherings, but the IRS found that the UCC had adhered to the prohibition against churches campaigning for political candidates "🍿
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The Pew Research Center, a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. For its studies focusing on demographics of religions in the world, the Pew Research Center has been jointly funded by the Templeton Foundation
Just dropping this in here - for when it's needed later
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Back to Pew...
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Pew Charitable Trusts beneficiaries include:
"environmental organizations such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Oceana, and mainstream think tanks like the center-left Brookings Institution "
Tetragon Financial Group Limited today announces that Hunter Point Capital , or HPC , an independent investment firm providing capital solutions and strategic support to alternative asset managers..".. tetragoninv.com/press-releases…
Stephen Prince, CEO of TFG Asset Management, said: “Following ten years of strong growth, Equitix is at an inflection point."..
"The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong to the RAF at all. It belongs ultimately to Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund...
Through a chain of seven cutout companies, ..the direct ownership is with Airtanker Ltd, which gives its address as RAF Brize Norton. It owns, maintains and operates the RAF’s Voyager refuelling aircraft, which have been providing mid-air refuelling to the IDF ...
The Verge
"Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app"
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Chesky : "The second idea was Airbnb, to the point of AI, was going to become an agentic app. It was going to become the ultimate concierge for traveling and living, and we’d become the ultimate agent." theverge.com/decoder-podcas…
Jim Stewartson says:
"Teenage cybercriminal and DOGE’s “expert” at OPM, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, bears a striking resemblance to his Russian grandfather who was a KGB agent executed by the Soviets in 1987 for cooperating with Reagan’s CIA."
Washingtonian :
"A Tearful DC Bids Farewell to “Big Balls”".