UCL in the media
Britain's colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after abolition
UCL academics, led by Dr Nick Draper (UCL History), spent three years drawing together 46,000 records of compensation given to British slave-owners into an internet database to be launched for public use on Wednesday.
Read: Independent Listen: BBC Focus on Africa (11mins) More: Independent (2) Boing Boing The VoiceThe manager is a singer and we're all in his band
Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Psychology) asks if the music world can teach us anything about business management.
Read: Sunday Times (£)Has this blog changed your life?
Professor Jon Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy) asks readers if his blog has had an impact on their lives.
Read: GuardianScientists sceptical about device that 'remotely detects hepatitis C'
Professor Massimo Pinzani (UCL Institute of Liver & Digestive Health) comments on C-Fast, a new device developed from bomb detection technology that is said to remotely detect liver disease. It's not a miracle. It works," he said.
Read: Guardian Reply: GuardianTo claim someone has 'Viking ancestors' is no better than astrology
Exaggerated claims from genetic ancestry testing companies undermine serious research into human genetic history, says Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment).
Read: Guardian More: BioEdgeThe brain is not a pudding; it is an engine
Uta Frith (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) discusses the bad old days in autism research when mother was to blame, and the frontiers of our new understanding.
Read: GuardianVicky Pryce retrial decision triggers defence of jury system
"More than 99% of the time juries reach a verdict. A hung jury is extremely rare," says Professor Cheryl Thomas (UCL Laws).
Read: Guardian More: Independent Guardian UCL NewsWhat's the point of the Breakthrough science prize?
It's not clear if Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner's award will add to scientific discovery or just Silicon Valley's ego, says Jack Stilgoe (UCL Science and Technology Studies).
Read: GuardianBerlusconi has tainted Italian politics for years to come
Silvio Berlusconi faces Beppe Grillo in Sunday's election: two sides of the same Italian populist coin, says Professor John Foot (UCL Italian).
Read: GuardianNewt Finding Might Set Back Efforts to Regrow Human Limbs
"I absolutely do believe it's possible to coax mammal tissues into regenerating to a greater degree with the lessons we learn from newts," says Professor Jeremy Brockes (Structural and Molecular Biology).
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