UCL in the media
A lesser-known tale of the Holocaust
In her recent book, A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust, Professor Mary Fulbrook (UCL German), tells the story of Klausa, a man she had always believed was involved in mundane local government work in Poland during World War II.
Read: Queen's ChronicleThe right to speak out
Professor David Balding (UCL Genetics Institute) and Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) received legal threats after they criticized the claims of a firm that sells people details of their genetic ancestry.
Read: NatureIn Blacks, Alzheimer's study finds same variant genes as in Whites
Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology) comments on new research that shows there is no major genetic difference that could account for the slight difference in risk of developing Alzheimer's disease between African-Americans and those of European ancestry.
Read: New York TimesThe courage of Iain Banks in the face of death is a lesson in life
Researchers at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience compared Iris Murdoch's that last work Jackson's Dilemma, written while she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, with her earlier work The Sea, The Sea, and found evidence of semantic disruption in Murdoch's sentences.
Read: Telegraph More: Atlantic Calgary HeraldFootball's little problem on the right wing
"The idea that Mussolini was basically OK until the anti-semitic laws in 1938 has quite a wide political constituency in Italy," said Professor John Foot (UCL Italian).
Read: FT (£)Row over fascist-era statue reveals schism in how Italians deal with past
"There was never a purge after the second world war because Italy was on the frontline of the Cold War, essentially, so you couldn't hobble an Italian state facing the biggest communist party in western Europe," said Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian). "A lot of things went unchallenged; a lot of truths went buried."
Read: GuardianBook Review of Creation: The Origin of Life; The Future of Life, by Adam Rutherford
This modern account of synthetic biology describes a breakthrough that could rival the Industrial Revolution for impact, writes Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environmen).
Read: GuardianOriginal sin? Adam and Eve never even met
"A number of the questions asked in Genesis are very modern questions, such as the origin of life and the beginning of good and evil," said Professor Steve Jones (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment).
Read: Sunday Times (£) More: The AustralianWhy prodigies fail while plodders rule the world
Intelligence is what it takes to get a job, but to succeed takes culture 'savvy' and motivation, writes Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psycholog).
Read: Sunday TimesOld and young are hit hardest by inflation surge
UCL Student Philip Newall, 25 (UCL Psychology and Language Sciences) comments on rising tuition fees.
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