Curated playlist
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Kevin M. MurphyIn 2023, Google's expert witness Kevin M. Murphy said Apple gets 36% of its Safari default-search revenue.
- James FrancoFor five weeks, James Franco spent twelve hours a day in a gully built as a film set, and he left it only to use the lavatory. Between takes he read books, including academic textbooks, just to keep busy. The American actor and filmmaker…
- Anthony KiedisAnthony Kiedis was born on the 1st of November 1962, and as a young man he walked on stage with a band that existed to play one song, one time. The group called itself Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem. Its only…
- Jim Farley (businessman)Jim Farley now runs Ford, where his grandfather worked in 1918. That job was at Henry Ford's River Rouge Plant.
- Hilary PutnamHilary Putnam invented a leading theory of the mind, then spent years taking it apart.
- Joseph HenrichJoseph Henrich started out as an aerospace engineer at a defense contractor.
- Elinor OstromUCLA rejected Elinor Ostrom's economics application for lacking math. She later won a Nobel Prize in economics.
- Alan Dean FosterThe 1976 Star Wars novel carried only George Lucas's name, but Alan Dean Foster wrote it. He was hired as a ghostwriter.
- George NolfiGeorge Nolfi quit a political science PhD after a three-studio bidding war over his script.
- Jann HaworthJann Haworth hand-tinted life-size cut-outs for the Sgt. Pepper album cover. She shared a 1968 Grammy for it.