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Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St
Jeremy Scahill, National Security Correspondent for The Nation, and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, spoke at the Doughty Street Chambers on Wednesday 15th May 2013 to promote his latest book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. A documentary film of the same name will have its European premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in […]
In Search of Classical Greece
April 3, 2013
By now, everyone and his dog knows about the British Museum’s blockbuster Ice Age Art and Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibitions, currently attracting huge crowds. But there’s another (free) exhibition equally deserving of attention, taking place now in the British Museum’s room 90. It is In search of Classical Greece: travel drawings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi 1805–1806, a pictorial survey […]
View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making
March 16, 2013
A lively crowd attended this afternoon’s grand opening of UCL’s new Institute of Making. The Institute’s overall-clad Director, Professor Mark Miodownik (who you might know from Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, or the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures), was on hand to mingle and answer questions. Mark has written a book on materials, Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our […]
Mark Miodownik @ UCL
March 12, 2013
Professor Mark Miodownik, of Dara O’Briain’s Science Club and Royal Institution Christmas lecture fame, gave a UCL lunch time lecture today on the sometimes blurry intersection between living and non-living materials, Stuff Matters. He came complete with signature floral shirt, and a big black box of chemical tricks. If you missed his lecture, the webcast will soon […]
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Jared Diamond @ UCL
February 6, 2013
The engaging and erudite Professor Jared Diamond - physiologist, ornithologist, geographer, prize-winning author, New Guinea expert, and much more - spoke at UCL last night, 5 February 2013. It is rare indeed to catch Jared Diamond on an overseas lecture tour (the last time we managed it was in Sydney, about seven years ago), so it was a special […]
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Delia Smith & Alastair Campbell do God
December 7, 2012
Another Westminster Faith Interview took place on Wednesday 5th December, this time featuring cookery queen Delia Smith in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Alastair Campbell, at Bloomsbury’s British Medical Association on Tavistock Square. Delia Smith is a devout Catholic who attends daily mass and reflects on spirituality each afternoon in her garden studio. She has also written several […]
London Bytes
- View of the week: Alien doppelgänger March 28, 2013 Belinda
- Noam Chomsky @ British Library March 27, 2013 Belinda
- View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern March 12, 2013 Belinda
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