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CUSU Garden Party 2018
Duration: 00:02:20
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. -
T is for Tasmanian Devil
Duration: 00:00:49
Published Date: 2015/10/19Footage courtesy of the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program , DPIPWE. -
Female portraits take pride of place in Jesus College art exhibition
Duration: 00:02:20
Published Date: 2015/02/02Works by French artist Agnès Thurnauer are on display throughout Jesus College until March 8 (2015). Three pencil portraits based on work by Manet now hang in the dining hall, replacing portraits of significant former College members. -
Naked Mole Ravolt
Duration: 00:02:20
Published Date: 2021/05/04The naked mole rat's weird biology can help us develop ways to combat painful human conditions like osteoarthritis. In Episode 2 of Naked Mole Ravolt, see what happens when a new queen arises and what a fight for supremacy reveals! -
Are we working too much? The UK’s four-day week trial
Duration: 00:05:43
Published Date: 2023/05/12A team of Cambridge social scientists have been conducting research on the world’s largest trial of a four-day working week. Last year, 61 organisations in the UK committed to a 20% reduction in working hours for all staff for six months. With no fall in wages. The findings suggest that a four-day week significantly reduces stress and illness in the workforce, and helps with worker retention. -
Forget walking... tiny insect jumps on water
Duration: 00:05:41
Published Date: 2012/12/04An insect not much bigger than a grain of rice is able to repeatedly jump on the surface of water using specialised paddles on their hind legs, new research reveals. The pygmy mole cricket, which is really more closely related to a grasshopper than a cricket, is only 5mm (1/4 inch) long and weighs less than 10mg. They live in burrows that they dig into the muddy banks alongside fresh water, to -
What is education for?
Duration: 00:37:30
Published Date: 2024/02/28Best-selling author Tara Westover (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/what-does-it-mean-to-be-educated/) , researcher Aliya Khalid (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/how-mothers-affect-their-daughters-education/) and Thabo Msibi (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/thabo-msibi-south-africa/) Deputy Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal -
Zak Coleman talks to Graham Virgo
Duration: 00:29:56
Published Date: 2021/10/12How much teaching will be online this term? What role should the University adopt in the climate change emergency? What is the University doing to stand up to racism? These, and many more, were questions put to the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof Graham Virgo, during a conversation with the President of the Cambridge Students’ Union, Zak Coleman. Beneath a portrait of King James I, Prof Virgo -
Playful naked mole-rats
Duration: 00:00:41
Published Date: 2015/09/02Playful naked mole-rats contribute to research into devastating medical conditions by Dr Ewan St. John Smith, Department of Pharmacology, who has been studying them for the past ten years. Find out more: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/n-is-for-naked-mole-rat -
Podcast: Education’s moment of reckoning: access and inclusion in…
Duration: 00:48:43
Published Date: 2021/09/23In April 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, close to 1.6 billion children and youth were out of school due to temporary closures, representing more than 90% of students around the world, according to the United Nations. Follow the podcast: https://mind-over-chatter.captivate.fm/listen In this episode, we take an international perspective with our guests Arif Naveed, Aya Waller -
Microscopic rowers - without a cox
Duration: 00:01:20
Published Date: 2014/07/29New research shows that the whip-like appendages on many types of cells are able to synchronise their movements solely through interactions with the fluid that surrounds them. The paper, published in the journal eLife, is available at: http://elifesciences.org/lookup/doi/10.7554/elife.02750 -
Bee swarm at Cambridge University
Duration: 00:01:10
Published Date: 2018/05/24A bee swarm outside the Old Schools and Trinity Hall at Cambridge University filmed on the afternoon of 24 May. Dr Ristuccia explained that the bees visit once a year. -
Paul Nurse, Society and Health, Tue 7 July
Duration: 00:09:31
Published Date: 2009/10/19Cell biology and evolutionary medicine. Professor Sir Paul Nurse (Rockefeller University, New York, USA). Summary: Darwins ideas of the tree of life and natural selection continue to inform medicine and biomedical research. For example, the single tree of life means that model organisms from bacteria to mice can be recruited to better understand human health and disease, whilst natural selection -
What is the future?
Duration: 00:53:56
Published Date: 2021/03/26Hello and welcome back to Mind Over Chatter! This second series is all about the future - and in this first episode we’re going to be considering what the future even is… Have you ever wondered how time works? It turns out, the answer is a lot more complicated than we thought. Please fill out our survey https://forms.gle/r9CfHpJVUEWrxoyx9 to tell us what your mind thinks about our chatter. -
Exoplanet Hunter: In search of new Earths and life in the Universe
Duration: 00:06:20
Published Date: 2016/02/15Professor Didier Queloz hunts for extreme worlds and Earth twins in Cambridge’s Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Here, he tells of the moment in 1995 when he became the first to discover a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun. Astronomers had speculated as to the existence of these distant worlds – called exoplanets – but, until the discovery of 51 Pegasi b by Queloz -
Podcast: Obesity: the gene-environment debate
Duration: 01:07:13
Published Date: 2022/01/13What role do our genes play in influencing our body weight and what we like to eat? Why do some people gain weight more easily than others, and is it all down to genes or are there other factors at play? In this episode, we talked with a clinician and scientist Sadaf Farooqi, health psychologist Theresa Marteau, and geographer Thomas Burgoine about the multitude of factors that go into -
Research Directions: Networks and their Roles in Economics
Duration: 00:20:24
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The Story of Campath -1H
Duration: 00:31:18
Published Date: 2013/09/17A transformational new treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) - the result of over three decades of research in Cambridge -- has now been approved by the EU agency responsible for regulating new drugs. In recognition of the highly effective new treatment, the University of Cambridge has produced this video which explores the history of the drug, showing the many challenges as well as successes -
Carbon Nanotubes
Duration: 00:01:20
Published Date: 2013/06/26Super-strong electrical wires made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are one-tenth the weight of copper, and if used in conventional systems, would make vehicles more fuel efficient and greatly reduce losses in electricity transmission. Additionally, the carbon wires developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge can be joined to conventional metal wires, which until now has not been possible. -
Opinion: The Ukraine invasion one year on – with Dr Rory Finnin
Duration: 00:02:15
Published Date: 2023/02/24On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One year on, Dr Rory Finnin, associate professor of Ukrainian Studies, reflects on the war and asks: what have we learned? Recorded 20 February 2023, nine years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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