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UCL Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011
by UCL
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlhttp://www.youtube.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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Would you give your right arm to protect your heart? (22 March 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Would you give your right arm to protect your heart? Professor Derek M Yellon (UCL Cardiovascular Medicine) During a heart attack the cells that make up the muscle of the heart are subjected to a restricted blood supply, this is usually caused by a blood clot or a…
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Great 2 meet u IRL :-) Twitter and digital identity (17 March 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Great 2 meet u IRL :-) Twitter and digital identity Dr Claire Warwick, @clhw1 (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, #UCLDH) Is Twitter an ephemeral technology, consisting of mundane chat about people's personal lives? Or can a study of its use help us to understand how we...
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Should the brain be left to neuroscientists? (15 March 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Should the brain be left to neuroscientists? Dr Daniel Glaser (UCL Psychology) Since the 'decade of the brain' in the 1990s an increasing range of previously taboo subjects have been examined by neuroscientists. These include autobiographical memory, aesthetics, love and…
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Sex, Drugs, the Internet and Juries (10 March 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Sex, Drugs, the Internet and Juries Professor Cheryl Thomas (UCL Laws) Is it true that juries rarely convict defendants in rape cases and are more likely to convict ethnic minority defendants than White defendants? And why can't jurors resist going home at night and…
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Genetic testing in the 21st century (8 March 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Genetic testing in the 21st century: Should we screen the human embryonic genome before implantation? Dr Joyce Harper (UCL Centre for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis) In preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), embryos are created by IVF and cells removed from these...
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The origins of the ‘ndrangheta of Calabria: Italy’s most powerful mafia (1 Mar 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: The origins of the ‘ndrangheta of Calabria: Italy’s most powerful mafia Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian) On 15 August 2007, six young men with origins in the Italian region of Calabria were ambushed and murdered in the German steel town of Duisburg. This was northern...
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Will robots take over the world? (24 Feb 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Will robots take over the world? Dr Kathleen Richardson (UCL Anthropology) 2011 is the 90th anniversary of the robot, first imagined as a character in a play, performed in Prague in 1921. It is also the 50th anniversary of the first use of robots in industry with the robot...
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Sex education via the media: promises and pitfalls (22 Feb 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Sex education via the media: promises and pitfalls Dr Petra Boynton (UCL Division of Medical Education) This lecture will draw on Dr Boynton's experiences of delivering sex advice through the media - as an agony aunt in magazines and online, and for education radio and TV...
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From prehistory to the London blitz: foreshore archaeology and a rising river (10 Feb 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: From prehistory to the London blitz: foreshore archaeology and a rising river Gustav Milne (UCL Institute of Archaeology/Thames Discovery Programme) When the tide is out, the Thames foreshore is the longest archaeological site in London. The remains cover a wide range of…
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Landing on a planet at 600 miles per hour (8 Feb 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Landing on a planet at 600 miles per hour Professor Alan Smith (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) Unmanned robotic missions are essential for understanding the planets within our solar system. Current missions comprise of gentle landings combined with rovers to explore...
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Homophobia: a global phenomenon (3 Feb 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Homophobia: a global phenomenon Professor Michael King (UCL Mental Health Sciences) To mark LGBT History Month, Professor Michael King looks at why homophobia has existed in nearly every society throughout history, and what motivates the hatred of gay people around the...
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Lisbon, 1939-45: the untold story of Portugal and the Jewish refugees (27 Jan 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Lisbon, 1939-45: the untold story of Portugal and the Jewish refugees. Dr Neill Lochery (UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies) During World War II, Portugal was frantically trying to hold on to its self-proclaimed wartime neutrality, but was increasingly caught in the middle of…
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Stabilising the global population (25 Jan 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Stabilising the global population: Where next for the Millennium Development Goals for health and nutrition? Professor Anthony Costello (Institute of Global Health) (please note the sound improves after the first 30 seconds) In many poor countries the Millennium…
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Building scientific models with computers (20 Jan 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Building scientific models with computers Professor Richard Catlow (UCL Chemistry) Model building is one of the oldest scientific activities and is essential for allowing us to understand the complex reality of nature. Modern computers have allowed scientists to develop...
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Who enjoys shopping in IKEA? (18 Jan 2011)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Who enjoys shopping in IKEA? Professor Alan Penn (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) Professor Alan Penn describes the way that architects use space to sell you things, showing how space creates patterns of movement, bringing you into contact with goods. In IKEA though,...
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