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A message from Professor Debbie Prentice, the new Vice-Chancellor of…
Duration: 00:01:24
Published Date: 2023/07/03Meet Professor Debbie Prentice: the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge "It gives me great pleasure to introduce myself as the University of Cambridge’s new Vice-Chancellor. I am excited to be taking on this new role at a critical moment for all of us. I am a psychologist with an interest in social norms. I have spent most of my academic career at Princeton, including the last -
COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine: everything you need to know
Duration: 00:06:18
Published Date: 2020/03/24The Cambridge scientists developing a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine Professor Jonathan Heeney explains why we need a vaccine against the new COVID-19 coronavirus and how his team is using new technology developed for influenza and Ebola viruses to target the new infection. Thumbnail Credit - Fusion Animation -
What would 'Brexit' mean for free movement?
Duration: 00:15:20
Published Date: 2015/07/24In an interview with the BBC yesterday (23 July 2015), US President Barack Obama argued that having "the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous." He continued: "And we want to make sure that United -
Treating MS: The long road to drug development
Duration: 00:14:35
Published Date: 2014/05/27A transformational new treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) - the result of over three decades of research in Cambridge -- has secured approval by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for in the UK, following approvalin 2013 by the EU agency responsible for regulating new drugs. In recognition of the highly effective new treatment, the University of Cambridge has produced -
FortyTwo – Your evolution resource
Duration: 00:01:40
Published Date: 2015/11/18Evolution is true, Darwin got it right. Why then a new website on evolution? A fair question, but only if it was like any other website devoted to evolution. This one is different, but in what way? You’ll need to visit http://www.42evolution.org to really find out, and when you do you will immediately encounter a remarkable scope of enquiry, a thrilling range of themes, levels of accessibility -
Three-dimensional reconstruction of a rangeomorph
Duration: 00:00:08
Published Date: 2016/11/14New three-dimensional reconstructions show how some of the earliest animals on Earth developed, and provide some answers as to why they went extinct. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-some-of-the-first-animals-lived-and-died A bizarre group of uniquely-shaped organisms known as rangeomorphs may have been some of the earliest animals to appear on Earth, uniquely suited to ocean conditions 575 -
The Vaccine for Fake News
Duration: 00:07:01
Published Date: 2021/11/25Sander van der Linden has a nickname: Cambridge’s professor of “defence against the dark arts”. His team works with governments and organisations such as Google to find ways to fight against misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories. Watch Sander explain his radical idea: that people can be “inoculated” against falling for fake news. Want to be involved in the research? -
Podcast: What did the future look like in the past?
Duration: 01:08:09
Published Date: 2021/04/02We all have theories about what the future might look like. But what did the future look like in the past? And how have the advent of new technologies altered how people viewed the future? We talked with curator of modern sciences and historian of Victorian science Dr Johnua Nall, professor of Digital Humanities and director of Cambridge Digital Humanities Professor Caroline Bassett, and Junior -
Partha Dasgupta: Nature, our most precious asset
Duration: 00:05:46
Published Date: 2021/10/13The last few decades of human prosperity have taken a devastating ecological toll. This is in part because nature is absent from the accounting systems that dictate national economies. In February 2021, the Cambridge economist Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta published a ground-breaking report on the economics of biodiversity. Watch Sir Partha outline the radical thinking required to reshape global -
The new Cambridge University Boathouse
Duration: 00:02:07
Published Date: 2016/12/05Cambridge rowing has a new home – this £5million boathouse opened on Saturday and will house three of the University’s best known boat clubs, including those due to face Oxford in the Boat Race next April. The squads will undergo months of training here throughout the winter in preparation for those Races, which will be watched by more than 6m people around the world. With state of the art -
Learning New Perspectives - Healing Polarisation. Creating Hope in…
Duration: 01:17:57
Published Date: 2021/03/28Can we begin to move our politics and public conversations from strident, polarised debate to peaceful dialogue - acknowledging the reality of our dependence on each other? Go to www.slido.com and enter code G489 to chat about the event. In this session, our three speakers look at how the cycles of polarisation and extremism sweeping the world might be broken. How do we shift the dialogue? At its -
The Pattern Seekers A new theory of human invention
Duration: 00:38:19
Published Date: 2021/03/30Why can humans alone invent? In this talk, based on his new book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen will put forward a bold new theory: because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then patterns. And he argues that the genes for this unique ability overlap with the genes for autism. Go to www.slido.com and enter code 43439 to chat about the event. From the -
CUSU Garden Party 2018
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Published Date: 2018/07/18The new CUSU committee have now taken up their new posts ahead of the 2018/19 term. Before the hand over they enjoyed mixing with their predecessors at the CUSU Garden Party at Sidney Sussex College. -
Lines of Thought: Communicating Faith
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Published Date: 2016/05/27Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with an exhibition of priceless treasures communicating 4,000 years of human thought. To celebrate, we have made six films on the six distinct themes featured in Lines of Thought. The third film in the series looks at the translation of some of the Library’s most important religious texts. Translation has always been central to -
Meet Zoe
Duration: 00:00:59
Published Date: 2016/11/14Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/face-of-the-future-rears-its-head -
A new beginnings Message from the Hebrew Bible
Duration: 00:00:55
Published Date: 2020/12/31A message for new beginnings from Ecclesiastes 7:8-12 in the Hebrew Bible. Read by Srecko Koralija of the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Cambridge. See a digitised copy of this 500-year-old manuscript in Cambridge University Library: http://bit.ly/HebrewBibleBeginningsMessage -
Vlogbridge winner: Zeb's Cambridge review 88 lectures later
Duration: 00:02:24
Published Date: 2018/04/12In his first year Computer Science undergrad Zeb Goriely has made it to 88 lectures, taken lots of photographs and learnt how to cook. But most importantly he's made new friends in a new home. Check out Zeb's own YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuv8dDEiIkHlMZ0kQg62a7Q/featured -
Affordable Housing
Duration: 00:07:19
Published Date: 2015/02/04This short film examines some possible policy responses to the shortage of affordable housing supply in the UK. It argues that a large increase in house building is needed, much of which should be new dwellings that are affordable to rent by households on low incomes. It explains the use in other countries of policies that link initiatives to increase housing production, ensure that housing is of -
The Truth About Diets with Dr Giles Yeo
Duration: 01:01:26
Published Date: 2021/01/27Each New Year brings new diets and health fads; carnivore, keto, paleo, plant-based. But what actually works? Dr Giles Yeo explores how to break the cycle of pseudo-science and misinformation surrounding the world of dieting as he discusses his ‘anti-diet’ diet book. -
New Horizons: helping people get back into work
Duration: 00:01:57
Published Date: 2019/04/02Some of the most deprived areas in England are located in the eastern region. The New Horizons project run by housing association CHS Group, with the help of Cambridge University researchers, has been helping those furthest away from the job market to get back into work.
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