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Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013
by UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlwww.youtube.com/ucllhltwitter.com/UCLLHLRunning at UCL since 1942, Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work currently being undertaken at the university. Speakers are drawn from UCL's wide-ranging academic departments and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications.
Episodes
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Cigarettes: the most successful product ever (14 Mar 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Allan Hackshaw, UCL Cancer Institute Despite five decades of research into the harms of smoking and numerous successful public health campaigns, many people take up and continue with the habit. Cigarette sales remain high as tobacco companies excel at...
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Stuff Matters (12 Mar 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Mark Miodownik, Professor of Materials & Society, UCL Dept of Mechanical Engineering Whatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the planet has not altered: there are living things and...
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Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state (7 Mar 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Lecturer in Scandinavian Literature, UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society Scandinavian crime fiction has in recent years enjoyed surprising success world-wide. The region, with its universal welfare states, is most...
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Civil Engineers against the double negative (5 Mar 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Chris Wise, Professor of Civil Engineering Design, UCL CEGE Is a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achievement of success? Do we really want our engineers to live their lives by the...
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Genomics and Healthcare (28 Feb 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Aroon HIngorani, Director, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications. This lecture, marking Heart Awareness...
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By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us (26 Feb 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Andrew Nevins, Professor of Linguistics, UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While slips of the tongue…
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A diet to treat ageing (21 Feb 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Dr Matt Piper, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing It has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms. By experimenting on fruit flies, we are uncovering that only very small changes in specific...
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Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? (19 Feb 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Wendy Carlin, UCL Economics There was plenty of scepticism among economists about the likely success of a common currency in Europe. The immediate problem is that peripheral countries have seen their public sectors incur large deficits and incautious private...
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The influence of Islam on science (7 Feb 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Dr William MacLehose, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies In recent years, there has been much discussion of the influence of classical Arabic science on the Western scientific tradition. Yet these achievements have been variously ignored, overlooked...
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Gravity and continuum (5 Feb 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Dr Christian Boehmer, Lecturer, UCL MAPS Within theoretical physics the gravitational force is the odd one out. It is much weaker than the other forces, its mathematical formulation is different and we are struggling to understand it. In this talk Dr Boehmer...
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Framing the digital: materialising new media (31 Jan 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Susan Collins, UCL Slade How are artists translating or materialising digital works for gallery and physical situations? Professor Collins shows a snapshot of works coming out of the Slade and the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) over…
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Where to give birth, at home or in a hospital? Does it matter? (29 Jan 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Peter Brocklehurst, Director, UCL Institute of Women's Health The last ten years have seen increasing emphasis on the importance of offering healthy women choice in where they give birth. However, to date, the evidence on the quality, safety and costs of...
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Xtreme Everest 2 research expedition (24 Jan 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Dr Ned Gilbert, Research Leader, UCL Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (CASE) Following their successful ascent of Mount Everest in 2007, UCL's Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment (CASE) Medicine will be returning to…
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Science for everyone by everyone - the re-emergence of citizen science (22 Jan 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Muki Haklay, Professor of GIScience Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group, UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Public participation in scientific research is not new. Many people are involved in scientific activities in...
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Obama's America: The significance of the 2012 elections (17 Jan 2013)
Prof Iwan Morgan, Professor of United States Studies, UCL Institute of the Americas Barack Obama won a second term as US president with the support of women, the young, blue collars, African Americans and Latinos. The Republicans, in contrast, retained the support of their habitual white base…
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Gower Street to Euston Square: A local history of the Underground (15 Jan 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Prof Richard Dennis, Professor of Human Geography, UCL Geography The world’s first underground railway, the Metropolitan, steam-powered and running underneath Euston Road, opened in January 1863. The early history of underground travel in London was beset by the...
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From Bletchley Park to modern computing: the value of Twitter (8 Jan 2013)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 Dr Sue Black, Senior Research Associate, UCL Department of Computer Science Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during World War II and the work carried out there by Alan Turing and others led to the birth of the modern...
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www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlwww.youtube.com/ucllhltwitter.com/UCLLHLRunning at UCL since 1942, Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work currently being undertaken at the university. Speakers are drawn from UCL's wide-ranging academic departments and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications.
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