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 …
So what do we have here then: a giant-sized Apple Cube? A 21st century Kaaba? Or a Borg ship with a chintzy makeover by Jonathan Ive? It is, of course, none of those, but rather the new US Embassy in Nine Elms, by Philadelphia-based firm …
Image / M@ Have you ever seen the corpse of Jeremy Bentham? The philosopher’s cadaver, known for obscure reasons as an ‘autoicon’, has long been on display in UCL cloisters, as requested in his final will and testament. Over the years, many legends have girdled …
Today’s date is 8/2/10 which can be written out as 8,210… and that is clearly the number of lazy London bus drivers standing in the snow, as snapped by josh is here, who was also standing in the snow, waiting for a bus. One word: …
Beware of Boxing Day traffic rottweilers and Scrooge councils. The case of the registrar who will not registrate continues…. Bizarre news story of the day: meet the London family who now live at Talk Talk Towers. A UCL study has concluded that in London deprived …
In the third of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Grant Museum. Here we see the skeleton of a female quagga (Equus quagga quagga). This extinct form of zebra lived …
In the second of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Grant Museum. This week’s featured exhibit is the disarticulated skeleton of a northern bottle-nosed whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus – the same …
In the first of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Grant Museum. Our first highlight, chosen by head of learning and access at the museum, Jack Ashby, is the skull …
Yes, it’s a penis bone. A walrus’ penis bone, no less. The very largest in the animal kingdom. We knew from the moment we stepped into the room that this just had to be Museum of the Month. As museums go, the Grant is something …
Parked in UCL’s main quad on Gower Street, an old school double-decker bus houses Object Retrieval, a new interdisciplinary art project by Joshua Sofaer. A single item from the university’s Museums and Collections is being exhibited in hopes of attracting the insight of experts from …
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