Subhadra Das, Joe Flatman and Robin Ince / photos by Hilary Jackson Bright Club is where funny meets brains. For the last 18 months, staff from UCL have been performing alongside stand-up comedians in the Wilmington Arms, sharing their knowledge and getting laughs out of …
A quarter of a century before a Robert-Shaw-devouring shark had the final word in aquatic menace, there was the Creature From the Black Lagoon. Actually, this dude is even more menacing. He has legs, and can leave his watery environment in search of lady flesh. …
A £20,000 reward has been offered to help catch an East London killer/rapist. UCL ‘did not radicalise’ the Detroit plane bomber. But they are going to review their programme of speakers from now on… Pusillanimous school governors have denied a 10 year old Kilburn ballerina …
Anti-third runway protest at St Pancras in 2007. Photo / IanMH One of Damilola Taylor’s killers has been freed from jail. Burst water main in west London leads to flooding in Brentford and problems in other areas. Imperial and UCL are doing rather well. David …
It’s unlikely to knock the Angry Birds off their perch or out-sell the various Scrabble clones, but a simulated stethoscope for iPhone has certainly captured the pulse (admit it, you’d have used that pun, too). The mobile app was designed by UCL researcher and Wired …
Key: Blue (empty) – Red (full). See the map for full breakdown Oliver O’Brien, Research Associate at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has used TfL’s open-source data on cycle hire usage to create this wonderful interactive visualisation of how the bikes are being used. …
Our friends at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis never cease to amaze us. Today’s dose of digital craftsmanship shows the peaks and troughs of London’s Twitter traffic in the style of a contoured map. In a cute touch, areas of the capital are renamed …
The wonderful, skeletal, taxidermical marvel that is the Grant Museum of Zoology is to shut up shop on 1 July for at least half a year. The cramped closet of anatomy is shifting from its current home on Gower Street to more roomy quarters. From …
Officials at University College London said a firm no to student Rich Martell last week when they told him to remove his website, FitFinder, after (big shock) students spent more time flirting with each other on it than studying. Martell may have to forego some …
Asking around, it’s quite staggering how few people can recall why Joseph Lister was famous. That guy out of Red Dwarf? Country singer? For some reason, the pioneer of antiseptic and sometime Londoner seems to be fading into obscurity among the populous, while fellow medical …
Staff at University College London and the University of Westminster have voted to strike in opposition to funding cuts. Both jobs and departments could be under threat as the academic sector feels the squeeze of a £500m chop in university funding. The timing of the …
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