UCL in the media
Relaxing vaping laws would cut smoking deaths, say MPs
MPs are calling for fewer restrictions on e-cigarettes and vaping. Professor Robert West (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health) welcomes the Select Committee's report and recommendations.
Read: Guardian, More: Yahoo, BBC Radio 4 'World at One' (from 22 mins, 30 secs), BBC Radio 5 'Chiles on Friday' (from 1 hr, 10 mins, 30 secs)AI is taking on the world's top video gamers
Professor Jun Wang (UCL Computer Science) explains the importance of collaboration for OpenAI Five, an AI team which aims to outplay pro human players.
Read: Science MagazineThe best books about the financial market
Professor Mariana Mazzucato (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose) writes about her favourite books for delving into the role of financial markets in the economy.
Read: GuardianNew Human Behaviour Change Project
Professor Susan Michie and Dr Emma Norris (UCL Centre for Behaviour Change) explain how their collaborative new AI project will help to bring about new understanding of behaviour change, key to tackling world problems such as obesity, cyber security and climate change.
Read: The ConversationPesticides linked to autism in study
Professor Uta Frith (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) comments on a study linking autism to mothers' exposure to pesticides, saying that there is much stronger evidence for genetic links, and that practical implications cannot be drawn from the new study.
Read: NewsweekFeeding hungry children without food banks
An article about food poverty among children during school holidays mentions a study by PhD researcher Edwina Prayogo (UCL School of Pharmacy) and Dr George Grimble (UCL Medicine) which found the Trussell Trust's emergency food bank parcels are 'nutritionally adequate'.
Read: Guardian'Vanity Fair' tv series holds up a mirror to class in Britain
Professor Philip Horne (UCL English Language & Literature) commented that 'social ambition was intrinsically linked to marriage and thus to love,' when discussing class and social mobility ahead of a new tv adaptation of the novel.
Read: Telegraph (£)More than half millennial women don't identify as feminist, poll finds
Dr Katherine Twamley (UCL Institute of Education) commented on a recent US survey of young women, saying that many people may affiliate the term feminist with 'man-hating'.
Read: IndependentThe sophisticated home life of Neanderthals
Dr Matt Pope (UCL Archaeology) will argue that the caricature of prehistoric cave men couldn't be more wrong at New Scientist Live 2018 this September.
Rotavirus vaccine cuts Malawi's infant mortality
Rotavirus vaccination reduced infant diarrhoea deaths by 34% in rural Malawi, according to a major new study by Dr Carina King (UCL Institute for Global Health).
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