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This Was Not a Budget for an Aspiration Nation
Budget day provided an opportunity for the Chancellor to lay out a visionary, comprehensive and, above all, ambitious plan to restore the British economy to health. Sadly we didn't get it, says Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Enterprise).
Read: Huffington PostCitations won't boost bottom line
"We need to stop being bureaucratic, we need to stop being so risk-averse and we need to foster the culture of entrepreneurship," Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Enterprise).
Read: THEWill we kill off today's animals if we revive extinct ones?
"As a human species, we have been amazingly efficient at making things extinct," said professor Kate Jones (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment).
Read: Scientific American More: Nature Yahoo NewsLessons for clinical commissioning groups on long-term conditions
As the NHS switchover approaches, the Nuffield Trust sets out its advice to commissioners, writes Dr Sara Shaw (UCL Medical School).
Read: GuardianIraq 10 years on: national museum still shut
"The museum in Mosul is closed, the museum in Baghdad is closed, and there is still a security situation in Baghdad," says Dr Lamia Al-Gailani-Werr (UCL Institute of Archaeology).
Read: Museums JournalWhy is the stuffed corpse of a great philosopher at University College London?
Bentham specified that his body be used as much as possible. This included an illegal educational dissection. He also wanted it displayed as a monument to his beliefs, and since by that time he had become an icon, people agreed.
Read: io9Wide support in UK for novel DNA 'transplants' in human egg cells
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) today voted to advise the government on the regulation of techniques meant to prevent the inheritance of mitochondria. "I have a small number of patients for whom this technique is applicable, and for whom this is a real opportunity to have a genetically related child without a devastating disease," says Dr Shamima Rahman (UCL Institute of Child Health).
Read: NatureCyprus Bailout
"The big issue is what's going to happen when the banks reopen, some form of capital control is going to be imposed because otherwise there is going to be massive capital flight from Cyprus banks." said Dr Eugene Nivorozhkin (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies).
Listen: BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight (from 30 mins)Should science on brain injury inspire a ban on boxing?
"We shouldn't get our fun out of watching people inflict brain damage on each other," said Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology).
Read: Fox News More: Windsor Star Irish CentralThe technofix is in
The visions of the future we are being sold are not merely technological. They are intrinsically political, writes Dr Jack Stilgoe (UCL Science and Technology Studies).
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