Were he still alive, Charles Darwin would have been celebrating his 200th birthday today (imagine how long his beard would be). His simple yet potent idea, evolution by natural selection, remains a hot potato. If one poll is to be believed, a third of British …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 9th February 1996: The IRA detonates a massive bomb near South Quay DLR station, just south of Canary Wharf. The explosion kills two men working in a nearby newsagents shop and causes £85 million worth of damage to …
Anyone there? And in central London? Why not feed your brain by going to a free scientific lecture. Two excellent opportunities present themselves today. At Gresham College (1pm, Staple Inn Hall, Holborn) Professor Ian Morison provides an overview of the search for other solar systems. …
London universities are some of the best in the country for research. Results of the first Research Assessment Exercise for 7 years were published today and LSE, Imperial and UCL are in the top 5, beaten only by Oxbridge. It’s actually research that brings in …
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 …
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