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HPSC0044 Book Proposal feedback form 2025

GenAI Helps Review Patterns in Student Book Proposals for Publishing Module (Undergraduate)

I’ve used generative AI to help me review patterns in my marking and feedback given for student assignments in the module, HPSC0044 Publishing as Science Communication. This module is taught at UCL as both a […]

Bathysphere for William Beebe's Half Mile Down, New York Zoological Society, 1934

Going the Extra (Half) Mile for STS

One of the tiny bits of my job is to help with publicity and marketing. We’ve a big Open Day event coming up, and we need to replace an old banner for our stand. I […]

Jarvis Lynn Cain (1933-2024) obituary

Professor Jarvis Lynn Cain, 90, died on March 9, 2024. Jarvis was born on October 1, 1933 to Benjamin Harrison Cain and Lona Bertha (Randall) Cain in Warsaw, Indiana. He had one sister, Joyce Eloise (Cain) […]

Jarvis Lynn Cain (1933-2024) professional resume and academic publications

Jarvis Lynn Cain retired in 1999 as Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of Maryland College Park. This page presents a summary of his resume and publications. For administrative purposes at the university, […]

Flight of the Langoustine, by Pierre Diamantopoulo at Hove Plinth

Flight of the Langoustine sculpture by Pierre Diamantopoulo

I love “Flight of the Langoustine,” at Hove Plinth, a production of Hove Civic Society. It was created by Pierre Diamantopoulo MRSS. It was inaugurated in September 2023. The location is on the Hove Promenade. […]

Crystal Palace in Sydenham. Undated postcard 61 showing glasshouse, gardens, and fountains.

Crystal Palace Company – First Annual General Meeting 1853

Crystal Palace Company formed in 1852 to purchase the glasshouse and remains of the 1851 Great Exhibition and somehow – no plan was clear at the start – restart it in another location. Sydenham was […]

Dinner in the Iguanodon Model, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham

Studio for Crystal Palace Dinosaurs: Enter The Extinct Animals Model-Room

The famous engraving of New Year’s Eve Dinner in Iguanodon, published in Illustrated London News on 07 January 1854, appeared only one week after readers of the popular weekly magazine were given a glimpse inside […]

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. 1854 Photograph.

Queen Victoria Visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs several times during the site’s construction in 1853 and 1854. In November 1853, the Royals visited the Model-Room, or Studio, of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and observed […]

The Spiritual Railway – What’s On Your Memorial?

When I was researching the start of the London and Birmingham Railway and John Cooke Bourne’s painting of Euston Arch, I happened to visit Ely Cathedral with my good friend, Professor Michael Ruse. In the […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology