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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 "
"There is a widely circulated video showing Homer Simpson behind Donald Trump on an escalator, which many people mistakenly believe was a Murdoch-era prediction of Trump’s presidency ..
"Justin Waller said he moved his family from Louisiana to South Florida so he could work on his influencing career, but also to grow closer to Trump’s “inner circle.”..🎶
Nov, 2025 , OCCRP
"Sun, Cigars, and Sexism: How Spain's Marbella Became a Hotspot for 'Manosphere' Influencers " occrp.org/en/feature/sun…
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" Tristan and his brother Andrew Tate remain influential figures at the center of the so-called manosphere ..
The British-American Tate bros also face criminal charges for human trafficking and rape in the U.K. and are being criminally investigated in Romania for trafficking🎶
"Billionaires bolt from Bill Gates’ scandal-scarred Giving Pledge as critics brand it ‘Epstein-adjacent’ ..The Post has sought comment from Gates, French Gates, Thiel, Ellison, Armstrong and Buffett."
What about Jack Dangermond who is in the Epstein files?
" Dangermond’s name appears on an email chain regarding the agenda for a conference called "www," which was hosted at Esri’s headquarters in Redlands, California."
Jeffrey Epstein sponsored this event and attended it in person. He was invited by the event's creator, Richard Saul Wurman (the founder of TED), who was a close associate of Epstein and a long-time professional acquaintance of Dangermond ."..
"Kemi Badenoch has branded an article in the Guardian 'disgusting' - after it claimed the opening of a Gail's bakery near a Palestinian cafe is 'heavy-handed aggression'."
Ms Badenoch has now waded in on the debate, telling the Jewish News it is 'extraordinary that Gail’s bakeries are being attacked now, supposedly because they are Israeli-owned'."..
The Guardian article features an interview with the Palestinian owners of Cafe Metro, Faten and Mahmoud, in Archway, north London - where a new branch of Gail's was recently established." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…