Ross Geller’s palaeontological obsession with dinosaurs, was a reliable comedy stick to poke him with yet its flipside was his friends’ admiration for his relentless and geeky academia. However, tonight, dinosaurs will be put in their place at the Grant Museum’s Dinosaurs Are Pointless lecture, …
Watch where you’re treading in North Bloomsbury. Among the fresh-fallen plane leaves and dried-on gum, you’ll encounter the stenciled countenances of history’s great (male) thinkers. Ghandi, Darwin, Dickens, Newton, Freud and others stare up from the pavement, accompanied by arrows that lead to UCL. A …
Optimists will be glad to note that things have never been better. Pessimists can take heart however, for conversely things will not get any better. We’re talking human evolution here. We are as good as it gets. London, 2008, this is it chaps. According to …
Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been putting your Summer wardrobe back in mothballs: Those clever boffs at UCL have developed an on-line surname toy: trouble is it is so popular that it seems to be permanently fazed. Ken has defended Sir Ian Blair against …
London needs to go to anger management classes: a man has been arrested following the death of another in a supermarket rage incident. Fly-tipping is naughty, and might see you sent to prison. Walthamstow moves to outlaw street drinking. Harriet Harman is to attend London’s …
The map above shows incidence of drug crime (darkening shades of green) against locations of nursery schools (red dots). As you can see, the Mayor need not worry about infant crackheads. This and thousands of other comparisons can be made over on MapTube London, a …
Adelaide, Australia could become “the next international education hotspot”. No, really, stop laughing – it’s true. Our very own University College London certainly seems to think so – they’ve just signed an agreement to establish a satellite branch in the southern Australian city. The UCL …
Right old hou-ha on T5 Day1. Technical hitches and delays made a less than favourable impression, although the threatened flash mobbing was replaced by a peaceful environmental protest. The new owners of Covent Garden would appear to be philistines. OK, maybe that’s a bit strong. …
Look out the window. The clouds you can see are 1059 m up. They’re coming in from the North North-East at a steady 9.3 mph. How do we know this? UCL’s new weather display, which gives fresh data on London’s weather every three seconds. It’s …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 11th February 1826: The University of London is founded. It would later be known as University College London (or UCL). Tuesday – 12th February 1554: Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley are executed at the …
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