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#27 Top Stories in Science Journalism from STS Students | WeAreSTS

The assignments students do in STS modules today are nothing like what they used to be. These days, they build portfolios with all sorts of things: short writing, long writing, posters, blogs, in-class presentations. Add […]

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Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

The Columbia Biological Series (1894-1974) was produced by the Department of Biology (later Zoology) of Columbia University, New York, and spanned a wide range of topics within the biological sciences. This paper provides a bibliography […]

Frontispiece. Heinrich Driesmans 1903 Francis Galton (privately printed). Translated by M. E. Coleridge.

What Happened to the UCL Galton Collection?

UCL Galton Collection is hard to find. It has been made increasingly invisible. This has happened through actions taken by its caretakers to depreciate its digital access, ignore communities of interest, and pretend it no […]

Lionel Penrose with Margaret Leathes Penrose plus a child in the Harris Family, 1954 or 1955

Lionel Penrose on Eugenics and anti-Eugenics at UCL

Professor Lionel Penrose FRS (1898-1972) was the third Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London (UCL). He took up this post in 1945. He retired in 1965. As Galton Professor, Penrose also held associated […]