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View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making
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 […]
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 […]
View of the week: Einstein’s brain
April 11, 2012
If you visit the Wellcome Collection‘s latest exhibition, Brains: The Mind as Matter, you will surely want to lay eyes on one of their most heavily-promoted highlights, a piece of Albert Einstein’s (1879 – 1955) brain. The sliver of cortex on display is not particularly illuminating, and far from the most interesting thing in the gallery space. […]
Plaque spotting: Henry Cavendish (1731 – 1810)
January 6, 2012
Henry Cavendish (1731 – 1810) died decades before William Whewell (1794 – 1866) coined the term “scientist” to describe those who investigated and classified the physical world, and was known in his time by the term natural philosopher instead. He was also known for being immensely wealthy, well-connected and rather eccentric. Even more importantly, Cavendish was a highly esteemed experimenter in […]
Where sound goes to die: UCL’s anechoic chamber
November 1, 2011
When I read about UCL’s anechoic chamber, I had to get in there and see it for myself. A room where sound from the outside world is completely shut off…what would it look like? What would it sound like? The answer is, very strange, and very, very quiet. In fact, it’s one of the quietest […]
Lawrence Krauss @ The School of Life
October 17, 2011
Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist, passionate science communicator, and author of books including Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science, The Physics of Star Trek, and A Universe From Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing, gave the The School of Life Sunday Sermon – titled “Cosmic Connections” – on 16th October 2011, at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square. As […]
Get your sci-fi flick fix @ Dr Joe’s Film Night
October 4, 2011
Dr Joe Cain is a senior lecturer and historian of science at University College London. He is also a movie buff, and regularly dips into his dusty cinematic treasure vault to retrieve old sci-fi gems for his after-hours Film Night series in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL. Previous screenings include The Lost World (1960), The Wolf Man […]
The Francis Crick Institute under the microscope
September 28, 2011
Residents of Bloomsbury, Kings Cross and surrounds may be aware of the construction site now underway behind the British Library, and may even know that, when completed, the buildings will house medical and scientific research institutes and laboratories. But what exactly is it, and what will it all look like in the end? Members of […]
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