UCL in the media
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Professor John Foot (UCL Italian) comments on the Agnelli family that have owned Juventus football club for 90 years. "Reserved, stylish, elegant, 'British' is the family myth," he says.
Read: FTWikipedia in sexism row after labelling Harper Lee and others 'women novelists' while men are 'American novelists'
"I certainly would be most upset to see a distinction between scientists and female scientists," said Professor Uta Frith (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).
Read: IndependentYour view
"Our education system has a one-size-fits-all approach; it would do better to facilitate and foster late, as well as early, learning," writes Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).
Read: GuardianShould the UK introduce compulsory vaccination?
Dr Helen Bedford (UCL Institute of Child Health) writes that sustained work at a local level, rather than compulsory immunisation, is the best means of increasing vaccine uptake and achieving herd immunity.
Read: LancetFrancis Galton, Flinders Petrie, and the dangers of hubris
Professor Steve Jones (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) reviews new book The Archaeology of Race: the Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie by Debbie Challis (UCL Petrie Museum).
Read: LancetCaldicott 2 and patient data
Dr Paul Taylor (UCL Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education) writes about the updated Information Governance Review.
Read: BMJTrachea Transplants Test the Limits
Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Ear Institute) comments on bioengineered trachea transplants.
Read: ScienceJohn Dickie: A raid at a mafia boss' villa uncovered a copy of my book
Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian) comments on a BBC documentary he presents about the Italian Mafia: "The mafia take their history very seriously. They've all got myths of how they were legends founded in the middle ages by Spanish knights."
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"Hair can be very inconvenient as it floats around your head in zero gravity," said Dr Lewis Dartnell (UCL Physics).
Read: DiscoverA Sense of Where You Are
Professor John O'Keefe (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology) comments on grid cells.
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