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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 […]
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 […]
David Deutsch @ British Library
June 2, 2011
David Deutsch, theoretical physicist, pioneer in the field of quantum computation, and author of The Fabric of Reality, spoke about his new book, The Beginning of Infinity at the British Library Conference Centre on 31st May 2011. The event was filmed, so watch this space for a webcast/podcast. For a similar talk by David Deutsch, see […]
“This is not a brain”: doing the Time Warp at the new, improved Grant Museum
March 22, 2011
UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology is once again open to the public, after moving across the street to more spacious premises at the corner of Gower and University Street in Bloomsbury. Its new home is an old library, and a variety of animal and hominid skeletons grin widely as they preside over visitors from the […]
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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