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Bartlett student wins Silver Medal for Robots of Brixton
UCL Bartlett student Kibwe Tavares has won the RIBA President's Silver Medal for his Part 2 project Robots of Brixton.
Read: Building Design (£)Thin-film specialists seek to hone self-cleaning surfaces
"The big challenge and where people are trying to move now is to get these films to work efficiently with room lighting conditions, where there is little UV," says Professor Ivan Parkin (UCL Chemistry).
Read: The EngineerSo, men are obsessed with their bodies. Is that so bad?
Male self-objectification has perhaps gone too far - but the compulsory self-loathing that came before was worse says Mark Simpson ahead of UCL LGBT Equality Group's panel debate about gay men and muscle culture.
Read: GuardianAlpha males get a beta in the board room
Research by Dr Nick Wright (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL) shows that testosterone affects our decisions by making us more egotistical.
Read: Daily Mail, More: PA, Times of India, Irish Times, AFP, Times of IndiaShared space is the future for London's roads
"Shared space," says Professor John Adams (UCL Geography), "deliberately creates uncertainty as to who has the right of way, letting road users work it out for themselves in a civilised fashion."
Read: Evening StandardArt by animals exhibition opens in London
A new exhibition at the Grant Museum of Zoology displays artworks by animals.
Watch: BBC London More: BBC London 94.9 (from 1hr 43mins) BBC News New Scientist Telegraph Sun Camden New Journal Daily Mail CBBC Newsround BBC News Breakfast Radio Hamburg n.tv Wired Huffington PostSurgeons 'cooked' my cancer cells to stop them coming back
Professor John Kelly (UCL Research Department of General Surgery) talks about how to treat bladder cancer.
Read: Daily MailAbortion, an anti-Christian student union, and the closing of the British mind
Cristina Odone, former editor of the Catholic Herald, criticises the UCL Union for advising that any future event focusing on the issue of termination needs to have both an anti- and pro-choice speaker, along with an independent chair, to ensure there is a balance to the argument.
Read: TelegraphComplementary medicine courses in universities: how I beat the varsity quacks
The teaching of complementary medicine has no place in British universities, says Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Division of Biosciences).
Read: Telegraph (1) More: Telegraph (2)Professor produces an abridged version of Ivanhoe
Professor John Sutherland (UCL English Language & Literature) says that if it's a way of packaging things for modern times, then it's rather bad.
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