UCL in the media
A foretelling gone right
Dr. Dionysys Larder (1793-1859), Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at UCL said that rail travel at high speed would not be possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
Read: The HinduTim McFarland: Noted authority on the literature of medieval Germany
Obituary for Timothy McFarland, a retired UCL senior German lecturer, who's range included art, music, history and architecture.
Read: IndependentCould your medicine give you a drink problem?
Tim Kendall (a visiting professor at UCL) comments on the rare side effects of medicine, like drinking problems and hair loss, that manufacturers don't even know about.
Read: Daily MailNew POST section emphasises political trend toward social sciences
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is creating a social science section to build up its expertise in the discipline. The head of the social science section will be a senior research associate at UCL on a three-year secondment to POST.
Read: Research FortnightLondon leads way but overhaul needed first
London franchises the bus service to various operators with strict control over service levels. "I think there's general agreement that the London model... has worked brilliantly," said Sir Peter Hall (UCL Bartlett School of Planning).
Read: Strait Times (£)Sustainability: Choose satellites to monitor deforestation
Illegal logging threatens tropical forests and carbon stocks. Governments must work together to build an early warning system, say a group of academics including Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography).
Read: NatureGoldman Sachs: The American bank giving British small business a lift
UCL is one of the partner universities in the Goldman Sachs "10,000 Small Businesses" programme.
Read: Times (£) More: Yorkshire PostNanotechnology: striking a balance between glorification and 'grey goo'
Emerging fields such as nanotechnology must resist the false dichotomy that says they're either marvellous or demonic, writes Professor Kostas Kostarelos (UCL Nanomedicine).
Read: GuardianGoldman Partner to Help Raise Funds for Crick Institute
Charles Manby, a senior partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will lead a 100 million-pound ($152 million) fundraising campaign for the Francis Crick Institute, which will be Europe's largest biomedical research center.
Read: BloombergBeat the bookies by training your brain to be as accurate as a computer
"Unlike machine systems, people's decisions are messy because they rely on whatever memories are retrieved by chance," said Professor Bradley Love (UCL Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences).
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