Curated playlist
Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Amanda AskellAmanda Askell left OpenAI after deciding it gave AI safety too little emphasis. She then joined Anthropic in March 2021.
- Amy FinkelsteinOregon held a Medicaid lottery in 2008, and economist Amy Finkelstein turned it into an experiment.
- John Baines (Egyptologist)John Baines became an Oxford professor of Egyptology by age thirty. It came in 1976, the year of his doctorate.
- Simon FishSimon Fish died of plague in 1531 before he could be tried for heresy. His sixteen-page pamphlet outlived him.
- Thomas MoreThomas More taught his daughters Greek when almost no one did. He also approved burning heretics.
- Damien KeownWhat does Buddhism say about brain death and organ donation? Scholar Damien Keown has studied that question for decades.
- David Christian (historian)A historian of Russian peasants started a history course at the Big Bang. David Christian first taught it in 1989.
- Robert ReichRobert Reich stands 4 feet 11 inches tall, and he has spent his working life arguing with people who hold far more power than he does. Born on the 24th of June 1946, he became an American lawyer, professor, author and political…
- George NolfiGeorge Nolfi quit a political science PhD after a three-studio bidding war over his script.
- Timothy ReuterHistorian Timothy Reuter translated a German scholar's book on the medieval church into English.