Prof Sophie Scott
AKA ‘Westminster! Scott!’ 2017 RI Xmas Lecturer. neuroscience of voices, speech, laughter @ UCL. Stand up scientist. likes carpets, Liam Neeson speeches.
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The Fertility Doctor’s Secret
Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.
I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled
Dear friends, family, and Austrian nobility,
Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepe...
Fund boosts female and black physicists
Astrophysics star launches a scheme to help female and black students to become researchers.
Why we are in danger of entering a digital dark age, losing huge amounts of online information
There are holes in the internet, flaring and spreading like the white ghosts consuming an old black-and-white photograph. In columns I wrote just a few years ago, links I carefully added to my argument now lead to nothing; worse, I can barely...
Theresa May's Brexit Disaster: The Prime Minister of Humiliation - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
Despite facing one embarrassment after the other, British Prime Minister Theresa May continues to plow ahead, seemingly undeterred. It's becoming increasingly clear that she is the main impediment to solving the Brexit mess.
BPG Awards 2019 Winners news release
45th Television and Radio Awards Lunch Friday March 15th 2019, Banking Hall News release EMBARGOED till 12 Noon Friday March 15th 2019 Hugh Grant, Jodie Comer, Nicholas Parsons and Lauren Laverne…
More than words: Social cognition across variants of primary progressive aphasia
Although primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is clinically typified by linguistic impairments, emerging evidence highlights the presence of early defici…
ICN Vacancies
Current Vacancies at UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing and FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system
Federal Aviation Administration managers pushed its engineers to delegate wide responsibility for assessing the safety of the 737 MAX to Boeing itself. But safety engineers familiar with the documents shared details that show the analysis included...
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[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…
We Speak Music | Episode 3 | New Frontiers
This is the We Speak Music Documentary by Reeps One - Episode 3, New Frontiers. #WeSpeakMusic Reeps One explores the ways in which beatboxing is opening up n...
Labour to back amendment for referendum on Theresa May’s Brexit deal this week
Labour will this week back a cross-party amendment which would set Britain on course for a referendum on Theresa May’s deal.
May calls for 'honourable compromise' on Brexit
The prime minister is seeking to persuade MPs to back her Brexit deal at the third time of asking.
Online pornography age block triggers privacy fears
British government to confirm launch date of UK-wide age block on pornographic content
Corbynistas think aspiration is a dirty word
My new sweater bears the slogan “Working Class Hero”. It is cashmere, expensive and I bought it mainly to wind up my sons who argue that a Radio 4 obsessive with a bean-to-cup coffee machine and a...
We Speak Music | Episode 3 | New Frontiers
This is the We Speak Music Documentary by Reeps One - Episode 3, New Frontiers. #WeSpeakMusic Reeps One explores the ways in which beatboxing is opening up n...
Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration
In 1985, the linguist Charles Hockett proposed that the use of teeth and jaws as tools in hunter-gatherer populations makes consonants produced with lower lip and upper teeth (“f” and “v” sounds) hard to produce. He thus conjectured that these...