Imperial College
About Imperial College
The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, known by its trade names Imperial College London and Imperial, is a public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned South Kensington as a cultural district with museums, colleges, and the Royal Albert Hall. In 1907, two colleges – the Royal College of Science and the Royal School of Mines – merged to form Imperial College London, with City and Guilds College joining in 1910.
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At Imperial College in London, they've started deliberately making mosquitoes with fluorescent testicles.
from No Such Thing As A Permanently Latvian Bear, 2019-08-02 at 00:36:30 · read transcript
Other times Imperial College came up
Then in the late 1800s, all of these little supposed dragon bones were being sold by pharmacies in China because they were seen to be a cure for malaria. There was a guy called Dr. Wan Yerong, who was the director of Imperial College, who had malaria and was prescribed some of these dragon bones. He was looking at them going, hang on a second, this looks like really old writing.
No Such Thing As A Reverse-Waterslide, 2021-06-18 · listen
If you look from above, there's sort of these big disks of cloud, which you can kind of see their lumbie beneath, and then they just top out. It's really weird. The reason for that, I've been on this fantastic blog that called Cloudsandclimate.com. Can't recommend it enough. It's by a cloud scientist from Imperial College. They form in rising air, right? Which is warmer. As the air rises, it stays a bit warmer than the surrounding air.
No Such Thing As Lightning At Sea, 2024-08-22 · listen
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshensky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go. Starting with fact number one, that is Andy. My fact is, there is a scientist at Imperial College who's been studying the same bag of dust for 15 years. Are you grusting him up now for being lazy, is that what's happening here?
362: No Such Thing As Batman and Robinette, 2021-02-26 · listen
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