UCL in the media
Blackouts from energy rationing are a potential threat to international banking
"My main concern is the cascading effects on society of failures to ATMs or cashless transactions. Similarly, the dependencies banks have on other services such as the internet,” said Dr Gianluca Pescaroli (UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction).
“Health” foods not always healthy
“Instant oats are ground up so they’re rapidly absorbed and often have syrups added, so blood sugar levels can just shoot up,” said Dr Rana Conway (UCL Epidemiology and Health).
Langue processing not necessarily in a single brain area
“I believe that language in the brain is distributed throughout the entire brain,” said Dr Jeremy Skipper (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences).
Is Europe’s climate becoming more like California’s?
“[The UK] has reminded me this summer of the times I have visited California: hot, dry and little to no rain… I imagine it’s not too different in many parts of Europe. It’s a very unusual time,” said Professor James Cheshire (UCL Geography).
Challenges faced by students who don’t speak English
“When immigrant children come to the UK and join a class, they can experience emotional challenges when they don’t know English,” said Dr Wing Yin Chow (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences).
Free public transit increases ridership but costs cities money
“A lot of cities are in a situation where they're thinking ‘actually we can't afford in 10 or 20 years’ time not to have people changing their travel behaviour and switching to public transport’,” said Dr Jenny McArthur (UCL Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy).
Industry likely to face blackouts before domestic residents
“I think the priority will be to try to manage [increasing energy demand] through industrial energy demand first,” said Professor Jim Watson (UCL Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources).
What is dyscalculia?
“People with dyscalculia may lack intuitive understanding of simple number concepts such as the relationship between multiplication and repetitive adding… And they may not grasp what is meant by place value,” said Professor Brian Butterworth (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health).
Russian economic stagnation prompts nostalgia
"Increasingly, a majority of Russians… have become nostalgic for the Soviet Union, and that's largely because, for the last 10 years, Russia has been stagnating,” said Dr Peter Duncan (UCL UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies).
Less accommodating rhetoric from President Joe Biden
"Although Biden may have had high hopes for 'converting' the far-right when he came into office, he's finally, and belatedly, come to the realization that he's never going to win over Trump diehards,” said Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science).