Course curriculum

    1. You're in!

    2. Advice on engaging with our content

    3. Getting the ball rolling

    1. Your personalised AI biology advisor

    2. Unseen and unsung: incredible impact

    3. How one career can save a million lives

    4. Tough choices in warzones and disasters

    5. Tough choices beyond warzones and disasters

    6. Health through time and space

    7. Public health where it matters most

    8. How to 10x your impact by choosing causes carefully

    9. Effective altruism

    10. Real people making a real difference

    11. How to save 10 lives by age 20

    12. Summing up

    13. Further exploration

    1. Claude says hi!

    2. Revolutionary research in biology and medicine

    3. More moral medicine and better biology

    4. Tough choices in medical ethics

    5. Preventing cluster headaches & intense suffering

    6. Preventing cluster headaches & intense suffering (quiz)

    7. From cardiology to cell biology: cultivated meat (and the food frontier)

    8. Why care about animals?

    9. Welfare biology: ecology meets ethics

    10. A framework for prioritising pressing problems

    11. Summing up

    12. Clare Harris talk and Q&A

    13. Further exploration

    1. Claude for weeks 2-3

    2. A piece of the pandemic prevention puzzle

    3. The Holocene and humanity’s peril

    4. The Next Black Death (or worse)

    5. Why you might want to prevent a global catastrophe

    6. Seeing the bigger picture of pandemic risk

    7. How AI is revolutionising biology and medicine

    8. Could AI wipe out humanity?

    9. Natural to artificial: Learning from biology for beneficial AI

    10. Biohacking, cures for ageing, and transhumanism

    11. Biotechnology for the abolition of suffering

    12. Beyond bio & med: using your skills for lasting good

    13. Do you actually want to pursue bio & med that matters for millennia?

    14. Summing up

    15. Further exploration

    16. Frederik Lau talk and Q&A

    1. Claude for week 4

    2. Research with real results: EPQ, thesis, and beyond

    3. Real results don’t come easily

    4. Ambitious but realistic? Why I’m optimistic you can do it

    5. The best learning is targeted learning

    6. The best learning is targeted learning (Activity)

    7. Setting yourself up for careers that really matter

    8. The world’s most pressing problems

    9. The world’s most pressing problems (activity)

    10. Biologically-informed policy-making

    11. Careers in comms, journalism, and scientific writing

    12. Clarify your long-term direction

    13. Narrowing down to a research question

    14. Narrowing down to a research question (activity)

    15. Summing up

    16. Further exploration

    17. Tackling Air Pollution: From Research to Impact

    18. Sofya Lebedeva talk and Q&A

    1. Claude for week 5

    2. Deciding your own future

    3. Doctors’ donations & money matters

    4. Doctors’ donations & money matters (activity)

    5. Do you want to commit to this?

    6. Impact not income: Alternatives for more moral medicine

    7. Specialties that make the most difference

    8. The pros and cons of medical degrees

    9. Why study medicine or biology?

    10. Funnel vision, not tunnel vision

    11. Degrees that set you up for high-impact careers

    12. Considering relevant degrees (Survey)

    13. Beyond bio: Psychology, Medicine, & Natural sciences

    14. Real individuals changing their life plans

    15. Understanding and critiquing effective altruism

    16. Understanding and critiquing effective altruism (Activity)

    17. Making watertight plans

    18. Your next steps on the path to impact

    19. Your priority area to look into

    20. Congratulations!

    21. Kaleem Ahmid talk and Q&A

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