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Crania Americana -the most important book in the history of…
Duration: 00:08:24
Published Date: 2014/03/19On display at the Whipple Library, Cambridge, is a book described as the 'most important book in the history of scientific racism' Current research into this book is revealing how racist ideas travelled between the United States and Europe in the 19th century. Crania Americana, published in Philadelphia in 1839 by Samuel George Morton, is being studied by Cambridge University PhD student James -
Perceptions (CFI film)
Duration: 00:01:37
Published Date: 2015/10/05Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores new and original thinking on some of the most pressing issues of the day. The aim of the Festival is to fuel people’s interest in arts, humanities and social sciences through a series of events ranging from talks, debates and film screenings to exhibitions and comedy nights. Of the over 250 events at the Festival, most are free. www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/ -
When is a system complex?
Duration: 00:03:24
Published Date: 2018/03/12Flocking birds, weather patterns, commercial organisations, swarming robots... Increasingly, many of the systems that we want to engineer or understand are said to be ‘complex’. But what does this mean? How do these so-called 'complex systems' differ from the more easily understood systems that we are familiar with? Visit: http://complexityprimer.eng.cam.ac.uk for more on complexity and -
Critical stage of embryonic development now observable v1
Duration: 00:00:12
Published Date: 2012/02/10New research, from the laboratory of Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the University of Cambridge, enables scientists to view critical aspects of mammalian embryonic development which was previously unobservable. Around the fourth day, at which point the developing embryo implants into the mother's womb, its development becomes hidden from view as this is taking place. Yet this is a very -
Podcast: What would a more just future look like?
Duration: 00:49:44
Published Date: 2021/04/16Our society is more unequal than ever, as the top 1% control over 44% of the world’s wealth while 689 million people are living on less than $1.90 per day. In this episode, we asked our guests what the future of fairness, justice, and equality should look like, and how their research can help to bring about a fairer society. Alexa Hagerty and Natalie Jones shared how injustice can be thought of -
Bursaries at Cambridge University
Duration: 00:00:54
Published Date: 2021/06/23Find out more details here: https://bit.ly/3gOa2Tm The Cambridge Bursary Scheme has been extended for students starting their course in 2021. Non-repayable bursaries of up to £3,500 will be available to students with Home Fees status starting in 2021 onwards with residual* household incomes of up to £62,215. All new undergraduates in 2021 will be eligible for the new bursary scheme, regardless -
Anti-fraud lasers
Duration: 00:01:41
Published Date: 2013/11/05An anti-fraud laser detector could be used to identify counterfeit banknotes, pharmaceuticals and luxury goods. The prototype was developed with support from the Cambridge Innovation and Knowledge Centre -
Cambridge's new Vice-Chancellor
Duration: 00:01:12
Published Date: 2010/09/30On 1 October 2010, in a ceremony in Cambridge's Senate House, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz was admitted to office as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was previously Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, and before that Deputy Rector of Imperial College London. The University of Cambridge is one of the world's greatest research Universities, with 17,500 students -
Day In The Life – Powerlifting
Duration: 00:02:32
Published Date: 2024/01/09Do you like to lift? ️♀️ MPhil student Larabella Myers is part of the Cambridge University Powerlifting Club. She's trying to qualify as one of the Club's representatives to face Oxford in the Varsity competition later this term! #Powerlifting #DeadLift #GymLife #UniSport #Varsity #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge -
J is for Jay
Duration: 00:04:24
Published Date: 2015/08/06The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, J is for Jay – a surprisingly clever corvid with the ability to mimic human voices and much more. Jays are corvids – members of the crow family. The jays we see in Britain are Eurasian jays. With their pinkish plumage, and characteristic flash of blue, they -
Brexit: Legally and constitutionally, what now?
Duration: 00:08:52
Published Date: 2016/06/24In the early hours of 24 June 2016, the result of the UK referendum on EU membership was announced. By a narrow but clear majority the vote was to leave the European Union. This result has begun a chain of seismic political consequences in the UK and the EU, and will have widespread implications for the law and constitution in the UK. In this video, Mark Elliott assess the immediate impact of the -
Leaving Prison in Faith – Film 1 – Hopes
Duration: 00:10:59
Published Date: 2018/05/23This is the first in a series of three films about four people ‘Leaving Prison in Faith’. Dr Ruth Armstrong meets a Christian man and a Muslim man as they prepare to leave HMPYOI Feltham in London and a Christian woman and a Muslim woman as they prepare to leave HMPYOI Styal. In these films you meet the four protagonists of the films in their prison cells and hear of their hopes for themselves -
History of Art: Studying the subject in Cambridge
Duration: 00:03:24
Published Date: 2020/01/07Academics and students from History of Art explain what the subject involves and aspect they particularly enjoy about studying in Cambridge. This includes a visit to Kettle’s Yard, Kettle’s Yard is a beautiful House with a remarkable collection of modern art and a gallery that hosts modern and contemporary art exhibitions. https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/anglo-saxon-norse-and -
Exploring Law has relaunched for 2023
Duration: 00:00:25
Published Date: 2023/01/24Find out more here: https://bit.ly/ExploringLawCam2023 You can learn some key aspects of the #Law from #CambridgeUniversity lecturers in 24 hours via @futurelearn . Ideal for anyone hoping to study at Uni. -
Cambridge's first black student?
Duration: 00:03:50
Published Date: 2018/10/01Jamaican poet Francis Williams may have been Cambridge's first black student in the 1720s. Black Cantabs president Surer Mohamed explores the questions that surround his legacy. Visit the Black Cantabs exhibition at the University Library, for more details visit: https://www.cam.ac.uk/BlackCantabs -
Chris Ponting, Darwin and modern science, Thu 9 July
Duration: 00:12:24
Published Date: 2009/10/12Genomes: the books of life Professor Chris Ponting (University of Oxford, UK) Summary: DNA from across the tree of life presents a fascinating record of the impact of natural selection on animal evolution. Differences in anatomy and behaviour between species are reflected by changes both within genes and within DNA dark matter whose biology remains largely unknown. -
Managing revision time with a Cambridge Uni student
Duration: 00:01:25
Published Date: 2023/04/17How do you plan your revision before exams? Chemical Engineering student Ethan from @GonvilleCaiusCollege has worked out what approach works for him that gives him time to do things outside his degree -
Sir James Dyson on why he's passionate about engineering skills…
Duration: 00:01:10
Published Date: 2016/05/09Monday 9 May 2016 sees Sir James Dyson open some of the world's most advanced engineering facilities at the University of Cambridge - giving the institution's students and academics the space and means to prototype, invent and collaborate on cutting-edge research. -
May Bumps 2018
Duration: 00:00:56
Published Date: 2018/06/18The annual May Bumps; Cambridge University's annual summer rowing race. It takes place over four days on the River Cam and involves several divisions of men's and women's boats chasing each other in order to bump the boat ahead. Lucy Cavendish second crew had a tight final day's racing, narrowly avoiding being bumped by the chasing Queens' College crew. -
Welcome to 'So, now what?'
Duration: 00:00:59
Published Date: 2024/02/02So, now what? is a new podcast from Gates Cambridge (https://GatesCambridge) , a leading scholarship programme for outstanding international postgraduates at the University of Cambridge. Our guests are the scholars themselves - big thinkers from a range of different backgrounds and disciplines - who are out there finding solutions to some of our most wicked problems from the global economy and -
Risk, Security and Terrorism
Duration: 01:00:24
Published Date: 2010/02/26Part of the Darwin College Lecture Series 2010. Social scientists tell us we now live that we live in a world risk society. But what does this really mean and what, if anything, do environmental risks, health risks, and natural disasters have in common with those posed by terrorism? When we move from the natural world to human threats are we still dealing with hard science or are we in the realm -
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 -
Elaine Scarry: Beauty and Social Justice
Duration: 00:55:50
Published Date: 2010/06/22Professor Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard), 'Beauty and Social Justice'. Professor Scarry was delivering the first of two keynote addresses to the conference 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty' (21-22 May, 2010). The second keynote (available in the CRASSH collection) was by Professor Helmut Lethen (The IFK, Vienna) -
Postgraduate funding at Cambridge
Duration: 00:02:24
Published Date: 2021/12/15Find out more about postgraduate funding at Cambridge: https://bit.ly/PGApplicationFee https://bit.ly/CamPGStudentFunding https://bit.ly/CamPGLoans https://www.gov.uk/masters-loan https://www.gov.uk/doctoral-loan https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/funding/external-funding https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/funding Copyright and all intellectual property rights in the material is -
300 years of Laurence Sterne (contains one explicit image)
Duration: 00:07:53
Published Date: 2013/11/25The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman turned a Yorkshire clergyman into a literary celebrity. Three hundred years after his birth on 24 November 1713, Laurence Sterne's quirky take on the novel continues to inspire. Dr Mary Newbould explores Sterne's lasting impact. -
Student Support at Cambridge
Duration: 00:06:19
Published Date: 2024/04/08Learn more about our support services at: https://www.studentsupport.cam.ac.uk/ 0:25 Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre 1:19 Mental Health Advice Service 1:48 Student Wellbeing Service 2:30 University Counselling Service 3:24 Sexual Harassment and Violence Adviser 4:08 Racial and Religious Discrimination Adviser 4:49 Financial Support 5:09 How can you access these services? -
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 -
Turning Newton’s Apple Tree into Gold
Duration: 00:01:34
Published Date: 2023/10/16Watch Artist in Residence Nabil Ali make ink from the bark of Newton’s Apple Tree in Cambridge University Botanic Garden. The tree, which blew down in a storm in 2022, was grafted from the original apple tree in a Lincolnshire garden that is said to have inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity. Nabil has named his ink Newton’s Gold. It will be part of a digital colour catalogue he’s -
Podcast: What is the future of wellbeing?
Duration: 01:03:22
Published Date: 2021/04/09Our wellbeing is essential to our overall quality of life. But what is wellbeing? Why is it so hard to pin down? How is it different to mental health, and what can we do to understand, measure and improve it? We talked with psychologist and neuroscientist Dr Amy Orben, psychiatrist Dr Tamsin Ford, and welfare economist Dr Mark Fabian to try and get to grips with wellbeing. In doing so, we learnt -
Augmented reality at the Cambridge Science Festival
Duration: 00:01:02
Published Date: 2011/03/03A Cambridge augmented reality app that breathes animated life into the printed page has worked its magic on the programme for this year's Science Festival. Download the free app, 'pop the Popcode', and point your phone at the front cover of the Science Festival programme. If you haven't got a programme yet, you can try it on the website: http://comms.group.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/popcode/ -
Photoreceptor Contraction
Duration: 00:00:18
Published Date: 2012/10/10In this video, you can see a group of isolated photoreceptors -- specialised light-detecting cells from the fly's eye - rapidly contract in response to light. This rapid contraction is believed to generate the electrical signal in the fly photoreceptor, which is the fastest visual response in the animal kingdom. Moving images courtesy of SCIENCE -
Open Day FAQs: How can I get to Cambridge?
Duration: 00:00:24
Published Date: 2023/07/05Learn more about our Open Days at https://bit.ly/CamUniOpenDays2023 Be prepared for our Open Days by reading our FAQs page #Cambridge #CamOpenDay23 #Year12 #alevels2023 -
How to make the most of Cambridge Open Days
Duration: 00:01:54
Published Date: 2023/06/19Learn more about our Open Days at: www.cam.ac.uk/opendays Current Cambridge students, Abiola, Razik, and Lorna, give tips and advice for making the most of your Open Day visit: 0:04 Plan your travel in advance and aim to use public transport 0:24 Research the programme and activities taking place 0:35 Visit a range of Colleges 0:49 Plan your day around talk timings 1:00 Use a map to plan your -
The Masters in Conservation Leadership: Student views on course…
Duration: 00:01:51
Published Date: 2012/10/04The Masters in Conservation Leadership: Student views on course structure and content -
Roger Short, What does the future hold? Fri 10 July
Duration: 00:15:24
Published Date: 2009/10/12Global populations -
A new era for apprenticeships at Cambridge
Duration: 00:03:24
Published Date: 2018/03/09New standards and funding arrangements for apprenticeships offer opportunities to expand training provision for both new and existing staff at Cambridge University. -
Chris
Duration: 00:02:58
Published Date: 2014/01/17Before and... a tiny bit after starting out at Cambridge. 4 soon-to-be students from around the country tell their own stories. Are you thinking about studying at Cambridge, but haven't started yet. Could this be you? -
Reading ancient climate from plankton shells
Duration: 00:00:24
Published Date: 2013/10/28Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows. A huge X-ray microscope has revealed growth bands in plankton shells that show how shell chemistry records the sea temperature. The results could allow scientists to chart short timescale changes in ocean temperatures hundreds of millions of years ago. This video shows computerised -
Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Alice Carstairs
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Rowing novice? Try our new Rowing Tank
Duration: 00:01:27
Published Date: 2018/04/18Want to learn how to row but worried about falling into the River Cam? Well Downing College's rowing tank maybe a good place to work on your technique before getting into an actual boat. The tank officially opens on Saturday 21st April. For more information visit their website: http://www.cambridgerowingtank.co.uk -
When real men wore feathers
Duration: 00:06:26
Published Date: 2019/02/14Ostrich feathers are often associated with glamorous women but this wasn’t always the case. In the sixteenth century, it was Europe’s men who spearheaded this trend. Now, a forgotten moment in fashion history has been brought back to life by the recreation of a lavish headdress worn by Matthäus Schwarz, a 24-year-old German fashionista in 1521. Led by historian, Professor Ulinka Rublack (St -
Applying with a disability
Duration: 00:01:24
Published Date: 2023/09/20Sign up today for our Applicant Webinar Series: https://bit.ly/ApplicantWebinarsYT Before successfully applying to medicine at Cambridge, Ashna was worried how her disability would affect her application. Ashna has her own website, where she provides updates about her life as a medical student: https://ashnabiju.com/ Ashna is affiliated with @CaiusSchools #VersusPastDoubts #CambridgeUniversity -
Cambridge Vice-Chancellor's Dialogues: Is democracy dying?
Duration: 01:18:57
Published Date: 2024/04/25Professor Deborah Prentice, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, presents the second of the Vice-Chancellor’s Dialogues. 2024 is the year of elections. A record number of elections will take place, with half the adult population of the world, some two billion people, having the chance to vote. Is this a milestone to be celebrated in our democratic history or are we at a crossroads -
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz: Challenges of global health
Duration: 01:09:19
Published Date: 2012/02/03Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 24 November 2011. The lecture is chaired by Dr Ron Zimmern, Chairman of the Foundation for Genomics and Population Health, and introduced by Dr Rebecca Lingwood, Director of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. Please note that the lecture proper begins -
'Mighty Mouse' pulsar
Duration: 00:00:24
Published Date: 2016/11/14An international team of astronomers has found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar – a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion – ever recorded. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-discover-the-mighty-mouse-of-stellar-remnants -
Cambridge Festival of Ideas: Access all archives
Duration: 00:03:31
Published Date: 2011/10/10Find out more about the eagerly awaited Cambridge Festival of Ideas event 'Access all archives: sights and sounds' which will take place on Monday 24 October 2011. The University's museums will be brought alive with live music and cutting-edge sound installations to accompany your exploration of the archives. Film and photography projections, improvisation, gamelan gongs, DJ sets and more combine -
Podcast: What is the future of reproduction
Duration: 01:15:56
Published Date: 2021/04/30Our reproductive capabilities are changing in exciting ways, altering our fundamental understanding of fertility, reproduction, and even parenthood. You can subscribe to the podcast here: https://mind-over-chatter.captivate.fm/listen In this episode, we asked our guests what the consequences of novel reproductive technologies are likely to be, and how they will impact the future of human -
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 -
#WhyMyCollege : St Edmund's College
Duration: 00:00:18
Published Date: 2022/10/20Fergus shares his reasons for picking @StEdmundsCollegeCambridge #WhyMyCollege #Education #ALevels #EduTok -
Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2012 teaser 2
Duration: 00:00:11
Published Date: 2012/08/31Join us at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2012 from 24 October - 4 November 2012 - a celebration of arts, humanities and social sciences with over 150 free events. Please visit www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas for more details
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