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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 […]
Tut-mania: Sir Christopher Frayling @ Petrie Museum
November 17, 2012
One of our favourite public intellectuals, the author and academic Sir Christopher Frayling, appeared at UCL’s Petrie Museum last night, 15th November 2012, for a screening of ‘Everywhere the glint of gold‘, episode three from his five-part 1992 TV series, The Face of Tutankhamun, and a discussion with the Petrie’s own John J. Johnston. Riffing on Egyptology’s […]
View of the week: Bentham’s great escape
November 8, 2012
After over 150 years of confinement, philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton made a brief bid for freedom from its wooden display box at University College London on Thursday 8th November 2012. The auto-icon made it only as far as UCL’s Rock Room, where it attempted to hide amongst other ancient objects and curiosities. The tactic failed, however, […]
View of the week: World’s oldest dress?
July 14, 2012
Amongst the 80,000 objects housed within the walls of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at UCL, one in particular has an appeal that extends beyond Egyptology, to the history of fashion and textiles. The Tarkhan dress was unknowingly discovered by archaeologist and collector Flinders Petrie at Tarkhan cemetery in Egypt, in excavations that took place between 1911 and 1913. At the […]
Rousseau 300: Nature, Self & State @ UCL
February 10, 2012
If you happen to be in the local area over the next few months, with half an hour to spare, pop in to University College London‘s Art Museum, where a small exhibition is showcasing the life of French philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). This event marks the 300th anniversary of his birth, and features books and […]
Slave-owners of Bloomsbury: an exhibition
December 6, 2011
Bloomsbury has a reputation as the home of historic and contemporary literary types, but University College London’s current exhibition on past inhabitants’ links to slavery aims to unsettle that genteel notion. But it wasn’t all bad news back then. For every George Hibbert (1757 – 1837), there was a Zachary Macaulay (1768 – 1838). Father of historian and politician […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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