Free Lightshow And Exhibition At UCL
Virtual environment researchers show off their skills with a large-scale lightshow.
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UCL Leases Doomed, Alien-Infested Building
Hampstead Road outpost for the university.
Exhibition Review: The Micrarium @ Grant Museum
The world of tiny creatures brought to life in a shrine full of slides.
Visualisation Shows Cycle Hire Usage Patterns
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. …
UCL Knocks Back Flirt Site
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 …
London Universities Among World’s Best
While the crucible of world power may be tilting ever eastwards, as our debt-happy economies come crashing down around us, for now at least the West can still celebrate its pedagogical prowess. In a list of the world’s top higher education institutions, the USA and …
Monday Miscellanea
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 …
Football: Lucarelli Would Move Livorno To England
Italian goalscoring star Cristiano Lucarelli (left of picture) told a packed University College London lecture theatre last night that his country’s footballing culture had something to learn from the English and that given a choice of where he could play, “If I had supernatural powers …
Blair on Trial
Kind of. The Tricycle theatre is set to follow its stagings of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the Bloody Sunday hearings and the Hutton inquiry with a staged indictment of Tony Blair for a crime of aggression against Iraq. The real PM won’t be present of …
One In Eleven
On average, people in Britain have sex once a week. Five years ago, the Medical Research Council published findings on sex at the Millennium, the results of which were used by government departments to inform sexual health policies and to produce estimates of current levels …
Byron Find At UCL
The BBC informs us this afternoon that “the only known manuscript of a poem by Lord Byron has been found within the archives of University College London.” During ‘routine cataloguing’ librarian Susan Stead opened a copy of The Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers only …
