Merry Christmas …
and a Happy New Year from UCL Antenna!
Why not add solar flares, monsters, circus performers and teenagers to your Christmas reading list?
These are some of the things we’ve covered since we launched UCL Antenna.
Acting up
LOOK AT US.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF US?
WHAT DO YOU THINK WE ARE THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?
LOOK AT US.
JUDGE US, GO ON JUDGE US.
In ‘Acting UP’, teenagers challenged our preconceptions about them in a play they created in partnership with UCL neuroscientists.
Art, academics and activism
An art biennale in India, co-produced by a UCL professor, sought to reflect back subjects of academic discussion to the people those subjects actually reflect.
“We learned some principles for life,” one of the participants said. “Whatever I’ve learned here, I pass on to my children… I speak to them with a free mind, keeping aside all shame.”
Weathering the solar storm
One day weather reports might include space weather too. In this feature, UCL scientists explain why we need to monitor space weather, and what they’re doing about it.
Are you man or monster?
Find out why the monster Grendel in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf could be the equivalent of the ‘gamer’ in today’s popular imagination. And how UCL academics are using computer games to make the poem more accessible to young people.
We will remember them
“I am determined that this war, with all its powers for devastation, shall not master my poeting.”
To mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, we looked at the life and work of UCL graduate and war poet Isaac Rosenberg.
The show must go on
“Circus artists create an emotion in their audience, but at the same time they are performing enormously physical feats with Olympian strength and incredible balance. They are such a unique breed of athlete in that they are both an athlete and a performer.”
UCL student Emily Prior-Willeard took us through the world of performance art, and why it demands specialist medical care.
