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UCL stories
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Voices of researchers and students around UCL
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Simon Watt: dissection & sperm warfare at the British Science Festival
Rupert Cole (MSc student, UCL Science & Technology Studies) speaks with evolutionary biologist Simon Watt about dissection TV programmes, sperm warfare, what Darwin did to earthworms on a snooker table and why 'ants are natures little anarchists'. Further info:...
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Crick's Olympics science tricks
Video (audio-slideshow): http://youtu.be/KYQN4L6SqB0 The Francis Crick Institute has organised a group of 'science buskers', including several volunteers from UCL, to roam around St Pancras International Station and engage members of the public in science tricks. More info: Science busking at St...
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UCL Student Podcast: Student torchbearers
Three UCL students are carrying the Olympic torch on Sunday, 22 July. This special edition of the UCL Student Podcast, presented by medical student Dan Grant, brings all three torchbearers together. Here are the details: Dan Grant – 8.33am (leg 17) from Incknield Drive along Cranbrook Rd (A123)...
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How we learn to laugh: Professor Sophie Scott
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) studies how and why we laugh but also likes to make people laugh. In this podcast her explanation of how we learn to laugh is inter-cut with her performance at a comedy night and a trip with her son to the playground. This research…
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Art by Animals
UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology is hosting an exhibition of art works from several species of animal, including paintings by elephants and apes. The exhibition is co-curated by Mike Tuck, a graduate from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, and Will Tuck, also a fine artist. Further information:...
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Dr Paul Basu: Sierra Leone's cultural heritage
This podcast weaves together live recordings of musicians and masquerade rituals from Sierra Leone with an interview from Dr Paul Basu (UCL Anthropology) on the country's cultural heritage. For three years Dr Basu has been working with institutions across Britain and Sierra Leone to gather…
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Haemophila B gene therapy breakthrough
For men with haemophilia B, the standard treatment is to have injections about twice a week so that the liver produces Factor IX for the blood to clot. Now for the first time, a gene therapy trial developed by Dr Amit Nathwani (UCL Cancer Institute) and colleagues in collaboration with St. Jude...
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UCLU Christmas Charity Concert in the Quad
For the 2011 Charity Concert in the Quad, UCL staff and students along with local school children gathered to enjoy workshops and performances by UCLU Clubs and Societies, all in aid of Centrepoint, a charity which works with young homeless people. Further information: http://uclu.org...
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Searching for life on Mars via Iceland
Astrobiologist Dr Claire Cousins (UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences) conducted her most recent fieldwork in Iceland. She formed part of a team who were surveying a remote field site that emulates the conditions on Mars millions of years ago. Dr Cousins is applying her field site research...
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Britain's legacy of slavery
Professor Catherine Hall (UCL History) and her team in the project Legacies of British Slave-ownership are examining how modern Britain, from its art collections and grand buildings to its financial institutions, has been built on the wealth generated from slavery. The project is tracing the…
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Word and image: the Early Modern world
Incorporating Albrecht Dürer's striking woodblock prints and Elizabethan maps of London and the world, this exhibition offers insight into the ways in which ideas, languages, cultures and power were exchanged in the Early Modern period (1450-1800). In this podcast Professor Helen Hackett (UCL...
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Using stem cells from the womb: Dr Paolo De Coppi & Dr Anna David
Amniotic fluid stem cells, different from adult and embryonic stem cells, may soon hold the answer to correcting life-threatening birth defects. While Dr Anna David (UCL Institute for Women's Health / UCLH) works with mothers-to-be and helps diagnose these abnormalities in the womb, Dr Paolo De...
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Martin Lewis - Student Finance 2012
At the 2011 UCL Open Day, Martin Lewis of moneysavingexpert.com spoke to prospective students and their parents about the myths of student finance for students beginning study in 2012. Martin Lewis is the Head of the Independent Taskforce on Student Finance Information. The event was supported by...
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Food Junctions
http://www.food-junctions.org.uk/ http://foodpaths.org.uk/ Food Junctions is a student-run festival that crosses cultures, countries and communities to celebrate the fabric of food in all its forms. Food Junctions is designed to promote healthy living and local food production, as well as to...
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