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3D imaging: nanotechnology and the quest for better medical sensors

The Lunch Hour Lectures at UCL serve to provide a thought-provoking presentation to eat your lunch to (surprisingly), and last week’s Thursday instalment was no exception. Professor Ian Robinson from...

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At Home with the Neanderthals – Lunch Hour Lectures on tour

For the month of June 2012, the UCL Lunch Hour Lecture series has gone on tour to the British Museum and it was a sold out audience that awaited the first lecture of the series on Thursday 7June. Most...

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Virtual visitors

The subtitle of Dr Melissa Terras’ Lunch Hour Lecture at the British Museum on 14 June asked an intriguing question: why would anyone want to visit the virtual British Museum (BM) collections online?...

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Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour: A book by any other name would smell as sweet

The UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, currently on tour to the British Museum, offer the free chance to break up a busy working day with a thought-provoking mini-lecture. I went along to the third instalment on...

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Snails in art and the art of snails

Professor Steve Jones’ personality remains a significant draw for life sciences at UCL, with his excellent lectures well-known not only for their wit and subject matter, but also for their enduring...

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To boldly go: pushing the limits of human exploration

Human exploration is big news. Felix Baumgartner recently made headlines around the world after becoming the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound. It seems we are fascinated by people...

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Can’t take, won’t take: why patients do not take their medicines, with Nick...

We’re now a few weeks into this term’s batch of Lunch Hour Lectures and the bill is as strong as ever. Thursday 25 October saw Professor Nick Barber, from the UCL School of Pharmacy, presenting his...

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Sustainable Energy for All: this year, next year, sometime – or never?

Liberal Democrat Energy Minister Ed Davey’s clash with his Conservative deputy John Hayes over the future of wind turbines earlier this month demonstrates how topical and divisive the sustainable...

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Sex work today: myths, morals and health

World AIDS Day fell on 1 December, providing a fitting backdrop for the latest Lunch Hour Lecture, on the sex industry. Or perhaps it’s not that fitting, as UCL sociologist Professor Graham Scambler...

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Apocalypse in 2012? History, myth and science.

As you are no doubt aware, the world is scheduled to end today (21st December 2012). At least according to a lot of interpretations of Mayan calendars. But how likely is this impending doom? And is...

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Gravity and continuum, with Christian Böhmer

Dr Christian Böhmer from UCL Mathematics took to the stage for this instalment of the popular UCL Lunch Hour Lectures to tell us all about gravity. The lecture opened on a history of gravity, or rather...

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Genomics and Medicine, with Aroon Hingorani

In recognition of February’s status as National Heart Month, Professor Aroon Hingorani recently took to the stage for a Lunch Hour Lecture about the opportunities and challenges associated with using...

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Cigarettes: the most successful product ever?

On 14 March, sandwiched between the UK national No Smoking Day and the international World No Tobacco Day, a lunch hour lecture explored what might be the most successful product ever: cigarettes....

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