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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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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 "
Joanna Bourke OBE : "Principal Investigator of SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters), a Wellcome Trust funding project exploring medical and psychiatric aspects of sexual violence."
Apr. 2024 : " SHaME Director Ruth Beecher sat down with Principal Investigator Joanna Bourke to reflect on two of her groundbreaking works on sexual violence, Rape (2007) and Disgrace (2022), for Women's History Review."
"Timothy Wyllie’s mother, Diana Wyllie, worked for British Intelligence, both in England and Germany before the war and later at Bletchley Park with the Enigma Code-breakers. In British Intelligence during WWII, Diana Wyllie was classified “ULTRA“."..
The Citizen Lab : "We found suspected NSO Pegasus infections associated with 33 of the 36 Pegasus operators we identified in 45 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, France,.."
"A separate operator that appears to focus on Morocco may also be spying on targets in other countries including Algeria, France, and Tunisia. We identify several operators operating in Israel "..