Three weeks into the New Year, probably one week until payday and telly’s rubbish (except for new CSI), the weather’s grey and the detox is wearing thin. Don’t give in to those January blues! Here’s what can get you out of the house for not …
It turns out that being a genius doesn’t mean you’re a nice person. That’s a lesson that the Science Museum reinforced today as they cancelled a talk by scientist Dr James Watson, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for his work in discovering the structure …
Reality TV: Not quite the white-hot topic it maybe was a few months ago at the height of Shilpagate but still newsworthy, if you’re a lazy newspaper editor with a comment space to be filled, anyway. What can there possibly be new to say on …
Punky has come home. Six years ago, Punky the Cat walked out the flap of his New Malden home, saying “Just going up the top for a pack of fags,” and then vanished without a trace. Humans Maffelda and Bill Hay, under whose roof Punky …
Event of the Week Battle of Ideas at the Royal College of Art, all weekend The Battle of Ideas is, according to their website, ‘an annual festival of social, political, scientific, academic and cultural discussion‘. In other, more juvenile words, it’s a mass debate. And …
This day in London’s History 1900: The future Labour party was founded. A jamboree of like-minded lefties gathered at the Congregational Memorial Hall on Farringdon Street (building long since demolished and currently a construction site near Ludgate Circus). To the rumble of passing LCDR trains, …
Photograph based on actual events These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Making sense of our world at the Royal Institution Most of …
Pete Doherty apparently turned up at the XFM Winter Wonderland last night and by all accounts, the word ‘shambles’ was entirely appropriate. If you’d rather not feel like an ambulance-chaser when watching a band on stage, try this lot: Monday 6th Londonist favourites The Pipettes …
