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General, Miscellaneous, Amalgamation and Career Activities

 

UCL innovation

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/enterprise/

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yA8nDwraeOfnYfBWun83g

#Education

 

https://edu.google.com/?modal_active=none

Google for Education

 

https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

OpenCourseWare MIT

 

https://www.edx.org/

free courses edX

 

https://www.khanacademy.org/

 

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/what-are-the-benefits-interdisciplinary-study

OpenLearn from The Open University, Interdisciplinary study

 

http://www.geekcon.org/

 

https://www.iie.org/

International Education

 

https://polymathprojects.org/ (OA collaborative mathematical & scientific projects)

 

http://www.complexity.ecs.soton.ac.uk ; www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity (complexity science & data systems)

 

https://www.wired.com/2012/10/open-science-roller-coaster-accelerates/

 

https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/interdisciplinary-science

 

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science — University of Leicester

https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/interdisciplinary-science

 

https://indiabioscience.org/columns/opinion/what-is-interdisciplinary-science

 

Meet the challenge of interdisciplinary science : Nature News ...

www.nature.com/news/meet-the-challenge-of-interdisciplinary-science-1.20185

 

Master Interdisciplinary Sciences | ETH Zurich - Zürich

https://www.ethz.ch/en/studies/prospective-masters-degree-students/masters-degree-programmes/masters-degree-programmes-natural-sciences-and-mathematics/master-interdisciplinary-sciences.html

 

What is Multidisciplinary Studies? - Study.com

study.com/articles/What_is_Multidisciplinary_Studies.html

 

INASP - Multi-disciplinary Science

http://www.inasp.info/en/training-resources/open-access-resources/multi-disciplinary-science/

 

AQA | AS and A-level | Applied Science | Why choose this specification?

www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/as-and-a-level/applied-science-8770/why-choose

 

Applied Sciences | An Open Access Journal from MDPI

www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci

 

http://www.necsi.edu/guide/concepts/emergence.html

New England Complex Systems Institute - solving societal problems with science

 

http://www.complex-systems.com/archives.html

 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/applied/defence

 

 

http://www.scienceofcooking.com/taste_molecules.htm

 

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/meat/meat-science.html

 

https://www.edge.org/conversation/nathan_myhrvold-on-the-science-of-cooking

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Influencers of interest:

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Physical / Engineering / Tech: 

Isaac Newton (mathematician, physicist)

Galileo Galilei (astronomer/cosmologist)

Alexander Graham Bell (engineer, inventor)

Thomas Edison (engineer, inventor)

Alfred Nobel (chemist, polymath)

Alan Turing (computer scientist, computational biology)

Albert Einstein (theoretical physicist)

Marie Curie (radioactivity physicist)

Ludwig Boltzmann (physicist, statistician, philosopher)

Richard Feynman (quantum physicist)

Bill Gates ($bil, Co-founder of Microsoft; Gates Foundation)

Paul Allen ($bil, Co-founder of Microsoft; Allen Institute for AI, Bio-sciences, Brain Sciences)

Steve Jobs ($bil, Co-founder Apple)

Sergey Brin ($bil, Google)

Larry Page ($bil, Google)

Mark Zuckerberg ($bil, Facebook)

Elon Musk (sci/tech $bil entrepreneur, Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, Boring Company, OpenAI, Neuralink)

Peter Thiel ($bil, various)

Carl Sagan (1934-1996; astronomer; presenter of 'Cosmos'; Cornell Uni (NY, USA))

Stephen Hawking (physicist; ALS sufferer)

Lawrence Krauss (physicist; Origins Project)

Jim Al-Khalili (physicist)

Michio Kaku (physicist, NYU)

Peter Atkins (chemist, author)

Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist and science populariser)

Brian Cox (physicist)

Hannah Fry (maths UCL)

Brian Green (physicist)

Bill Nye (physicist engineer)

Lex Fridman (MIT AI, podcaster)

Max Tegmark (physicist)

Geoff Hinton (UToronto, G DeepMind)

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Biological / Medical: 

 

older:

Charles Darwin (evolutionary biologist), 

William Harvey (cardiology and anatomy),

Wilder Penfield (neuro-electrophysiology), 

Hermann von Helmholtz (physicist/physician), 

Santiago Ramon y Cajal (cellular neuroscientist), 

Donald Hebb (neuroscientist), 

John Maynard Smith (theoretical mathematical evolutionary geneticist), 

David Marr (computational neuroscience and visual system), 

Eric Kandel (neurobiologist, author, Nobel), 

Francis Crick (molecular biologist; neuroscientist), 

Brenda Milner (cognitive neuroscience), 

Nikolaas Tinbergen (ethologist, Oxford, 1973 Nobel), 

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more recent:

David Attenborough (naturalist and broadcaster), 

Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist, advocate for atheism), 

Steven Pinker (PhD, cognitive psychologist, many others, MIT/Harvard)

Steven Rose (neuroscience)

VS Ramachandran (neuro, UCSD), 

Oliver Sachs (neuro)

Robert Winston (medic, Imperial), 

David Nutt (medic, drugs, Imperial), 

Lewis Wolpert (dev bio)

Ben Carson (neurosurgeon, US Gov)

Sanjay Gupta (surgeon)

Christian Jessen (GP) 

Randolph Nesse (evo med)

Craig Venter (genomics)

Francis Collins (NIH)

Steve Jones (genetics, ucl)

Michael Levitt (comp bioc)

Tim Hunt (mol bio)

Susan Greenfield (neuro)

Helen Fisher (anthropology, psychiatrics)

Carl Hart (neurpsyc)

Robert Sapolsky (neuro, anthropo)

Alice Roberts (paleo-anthropo)

Cara Santa Maria (neuro)

Antonio Damasio (cogn)

John O’Keefe (neuro, UCL, FRS, 2014 Nobel), 

Chris Frith (neuro, UCL)

Andrew Huberman (neuroscientist, youtuber)

Ray Dolan (cogn neuro, UCL)

Daniel Wolpert (ucl neuro)

Karl Friston (comp neuro, UCL)

Neil Burgess (comp neuro, UCL)

Geraint Rees (cogn neuro, UCL)

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Cognitive Sciences: 

Ivan Pavlov (psyc: conditioning)

BF Skinner (psyc: conditioning)

Abraham Maslow (psyc)

Marilyn vos Savant (psyc: intelligence)

Endel Tulving (psyc: memory)

Jane Goodall (zoologist)

Tali Sharot (UCL neuro, politics)

Jonathan Haidt  (NYU psychology of political affiliations)

Daniel Dennett (philosopher) (USA)

Noam Chomsky (linguistics, policy critic) (USA)

Sam Harris (philosopher, neuroscience) (USA)

Helena Cronin (evolutionary anthropologist, LSE)

John Tooby (physicist, evolutionary psyc and behav economics)

Elizabeth Loftus (psyc: memory) 

David Eagleman (psyc, neuro)

Demis Hassabis (CEO, G DeepMind).

Eleanor Maguire (fMRI, psyc: memory)

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Economics: 

Adam Smith (free markets)

John Maynard Keynes (socialism-related, labour economics)

Milton Friedman (capitalist free markets, business monetary policy, Nobel), 

John Nash (math game theory, Nobel), 

Matt Ridley (evo bio; behav econ)

Daniel Kahneman (decision-making, Nobel)

Michael Burry (neurologist; stock broker economist).

 

Politics: 

Thomas Jefferson (USA founding father)

Thomas Paine

John Adams

Dr Benjamin Franklin (FRS, physician, physicist, inventor, economist, USA founding father),  physician, physicist/engineer, inventor, economist, policy maker, philosopher, USA founding father; classical liberalism) (UK/USA) (1706-1790) 

Mr Jeremy Bentham (UCL founder)

Sen Bernie Sanders (democratic socialist, Independent, VT, USA)

Dr Jill Stein (Green Party, USA)

Dr Ron Paul (MD med clin, conservative libertarian congressman TX, USA (R))

Dr Rand Paul (MD ophthalmologist; libertarian), 

Pres Bill Clinton (USA president (Democrat))

Pres Barack Obama (JD, senator, USA president (D), Nobel)

Pres ..

 

Philosophy: 

Aristotle

Locke

Hume

Rene Descartes

Francis Bacon

Mahatma Gandhi

John Stuart Mill

Bertrand Russell

Robert K Merton (sociology of science)

Thomas Kuhn (philosophy of science)

Ayn Rand (objectivism & individualism)

Roger Penrose

Peter Singer (bio-ethics)

Nick Bostrom (ethics)

Yuval Noah Harari (historian, human explorations)

 

 

Other: 

Leonardo da Vinci (artist, anatomist, inventor)

James Randi (anti-pseudoscience), 

Ben Goldacre (anti-pseudoscience),  

Michael Shermer (scientist, skeptic, rationalist)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (human rights activist, gender rights), 

Christopher Hitchens (polemicist, writer), 

Jordan Peterson (clinical psychologist), 

Cenk Uygur (JD; reporter, liberal progressive)

Bill Maher (comedian, liberal political commentator, HBO/LA), 

John Stossel (libertarian political commentator, Fox/Reason, NYC), 

Dave Rubin (journalist, left-centre-right political debates), 

Neil Strauss et al (author, evolutionary psychologist)

Shigeru Miyamoto (video game designer, .jp), 

Penn Jillette (magician, illusionist), 

Jesse Ventura (veteran, Gov IN(I)), 

Yaron Brook (capitalist activist), 

Derren Brown (mentalist, illusionist), 

Seth MacFarlane (writer, producer, actor), 

Stephen Fry (actor, other), 

Bret & Eric Weinstein (evolutionary biologist, mathematical economics, intellectual web)

Tai Lopez (entrepreneur, influencer)

Joe Rogan (podcaster),

Nick Gillespie (Reason.tv), 

Mark Cuban (sci & tech & showbiz & sports, billionaire).

 

Sci-fi: 

Arthur C Clarke, 

Isaac Asimov.

 

 

Sports / Athletes / Art / Showbusiness/TV: 

Bruce Lee (MMA), 

Jet Li (MMA), 

Jackie Chan (MMA), 

Jean-Claude van Dame (MMA), 

Bas Rutten (MMA), 

Matt Damon, 

Marshall B Mathers (music)

Will Smith (acting)

Arnold Schwarzenegger (bodybuilder, actor, Gov CA (R)) 

Lou Ferrigno (bodybuilder)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books I would recommend: 

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-------- General Science / Bio / Neuro / Cogn

Neuroscience (6th ed) (2017) by Purves et al

Principles of Neural Science (5th ed) (2012) by Kandel et al (covers all basic principles in neurosciences)

The Making of Memory (2003) and The Chemistry of Life (1966) by Steven Rose (about being a research scientist and the molecular basis of life)

Life 3.0 (2017) by Max Tegmark (about AI, futurism, cyborgs, trans-humanism)

The Selfish Gene (1976) and Unweaving the Rainbow (1998) by Richard Dawkins

How the Mind Works (1997) and Enlightenment Now (2018) by Steven Pinker

Descartes' Error (2006) by Antonio Damasio

Gray's Anatomy (1858) (& 2015 - 41st ed) by Henry Gray 

Computational Neuroscience (2001) by Dayan & Abbott

On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1853) by Charles Darwin

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005) by Nick Lane

Free Will (2012) by Sam Harris

------- Business

Elon Musk (2016) by Ashlee Vance

Business at the Speed of Thought (1999) by Bill Gates

------- Other

How to Lie with Statistics (1954) by Darrell Huff

Complexity (2014) by John H Holland

How Things Work by ... 

... by Matt Ridley

------- Physics

Quantum Electrodynamics: The Strange Theory (1985) by Richard Feynman

A Universe from Nothing (2012) by Lawrence Krauss (physics & cosmology)

The World as I See It (1949) by Albert Einstein

------- Soc / Econ / Pol

Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Noam Chomsky (linguistics, mass media, political propaganda in democracies)

Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand (objectivism, individualism)

Freakonomics (2005) by Dubner & Levitt (the economics of everything)

Free to Choose (1980) by Milton Friedman (a case for capitalism)

Our Revolution (2016) by Bernie Sanders

Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx (a case for socialism)

The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith (a case for capitalism)

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Contrast with these other books: (TBC)

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Films/Series I recommend:

 

• The Boy with the Beautiful Brain (Documentary film on Savant syndrome and the brain, and learning and memory)

• The 7-year old surgeon (Great documentary on Akrit Jaswal)

• Brain Story (TV series about the brain)

• Phantoms in the Brain (TV series on phantom limbs and neuroscience in general)

• Cosmos (TV series hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson and originally by Carl Sagan, on humans, physics and the universe)

• The Life Collection (TV series starring / hosted by David Attenborough, on ecology, evolution, biodiversity, zoology, humans)

• How It's Made (Series)

• AlphaGo (Documentary film on the human mind, Artificial Intelligence and the game of Go)

• A Beautiful Mind (Film on Nobel Laureate John Nash and his work on behavioural economics and game theory)

• The Theory of Everything (Film biopic on Stephen Hawking)

• Ghost in the Shell (Sci-fi film on Brain Machine Interfaces and justice in society; japanese)

• The Matrix (Sci-fi film)

• Jobs (Film on Steve Jobs - the first version)

• Bigger Stronger Faster (Documentary Film on bodybuilding, anabolic steroids and drugs in sports - the science, the culture/politics)

• Fahrenheit 9/11 (Documentary Film on USA foreign policy and ideological radicalism in the middle east and around the world)

• Fight Science and the Masters of Mixed Martial Arts (by NatGeo)

• Longer list TBC ....

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