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Olympic legacy and 1851

Was invited to comment on the UCL V&A announcement for the olympic park at Stratford Waterfront by the Evening Standard, and here’s the letter they published yesterday: 5 December 2013 BEFORE…

Meeting at the Science Gallery

In my new role as Director of Science Gallery London at King’s College London I often meet people at the site. The easiest place for this is at the…

Christopher Wren brain imaging

Here is a link to an image Christopher Wren made in the 1660s of the anatomy of the brain which beautifully illustrates the system of blood supply now…

Slightly irreverent talk about the brain and education

The nice people at sameas have posted a link to a talk I gave in a pub about what neuroscience should or shouldn’t tell us about education. (Contains no…

Links to what we’ve been up to

The special projects team I head at Wellcome Trust have been busy over the summer. Biggest thing is probably the olympic-related experiment for every school child in Britain….

Twin science

Looking at the story of the conjoined twins who have been successfully separated. You can read about the circle of Willis and Christopher Wren here and some of the stuff…

Under Laboratory Conditions

I’m surprised and pleased to note that threespeed79 has uploaded the series on to youtube. You can watch the whole thing via the playlist. Originally broadcast BBC FOUR…