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Navigating political legitimacy in a polarised world
Duration: 00:36:19
Published Date: 2024/06/25The episode explores the topic of political legitimacy in a polarized world. The guests discuss the psychological and cognitive components of political beliefs, the impact of polarization on journalism, and the importance of understanding the perspectives of people on the ground. They emphasize the need for flexible thinking, reevaluating our own dogmas, and engaging in meaningful conversations -
Forager past shows our fragile bones result from physical inactivity…
Duration: 00:01:05
Published Date: 2014/12/23New research across thousands of years of human evolution shows that our skeletons have become much lighter and more fragile since the invention of agriculture - a result of our increasingly sedentary lifestyles as we shifted from foraging to farming. This video shows the CT scanning used in this research. To find out more, visit: -
Artificial ‘brain’ reveals why we can’t always believe our eyes
Duration: 00:01:20
Published Date: 2021/02/25A computer network closely modelled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images - and explains some perplexing optical illusions. Find out more here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-brain-reveals-why-we-cant-always-believe-our-eyes This research was supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the Isaac Newton Trust. Reference Rideaux, -
Carmina qui quondam (excerpt) - Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy…
Duration: 00:01:20
Published Date: 2016/04/22April 2016 saw the first performance of reconstructed 11th-Century ‘lost songs’ that hadn’t been heard in over 1,000 years - a performance made possible by the research of one of our lecturers (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-performance-in-1000-years-lost-songs-from-the-middle-ages-are-brought-back-to-life-0) Two years on, a CD of this repertoire has just been released, and we are -
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 -
Heu quam praecipiti (excerpt) - Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy…
Duration: 00:01:01
Published Date: 2016/04/22April 2016 saw the first performance of reconstructed 11th-Century ‘lost songs’ that hadn’t been heard in over 1,000 years - a performance made possible by the research of one of our lecturers (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-performance-in-1000-years-lost-songs-from-the-middle-ages-are-brought-back-to-life-0) Two years on, a CD of this repertoire has just been released, and we are -
T-cell assassins captured on film hunting down cancer cells and…
Duration: 00:00:30
Published Date: 2021/10/15Cambridge researchers have captured on film the activity of T cells – an important component of our immune system – as they hunt down and kill cancer cells. For the first time, they have also shown how these cells reload their toxic weapons. Cytotoxic T cells are specialist white blood cells that are trained by our immune system to recognise and eliminate threats – including tumour cells -
Reconstructing the Songs of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
Duration: 00:13:05
Published Date: 2016/08/17April 2016 saw the first performance of reconstructed 11th-Century ‘lost songs’ that hadn’t been heard in over 1,000 years - a performance made possible by the research of one of our lecturers (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-performance-in-1000-years-lost-songs-from-the-middle-ages-are-brought-back-to-life-0) Two years on, a CD of this repertoire has just been released, and we are -
Fighting cancer: Animal research at Cambridge
Duration: 00:11:40
Published Date: 2015/04/24Animal research plays an essential role in our understanding of health and disease and in the development of modern medicine and surgical techniques. As part of our commitment to openness, this film examines how mice are helping the fight against cancer. It takes a in-depth look at the facilities in which they are housed, exploring issues of animal welfare and the search for replacements. We -
'Polluted' stellar graveyard gives glimpse of our Solar…
Duration: 00:00:11
Published Date: 2013/05/09By chemically sampling the atmospheres of two dead stars in the Hyades cluster 150 light years away, researchers at Cambridge and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the building blocks for Earth-sized planets formed around the stars while they lived. The study offers insight into what will happen in our solar system when our Sun burns out 5 billion years from now. This animation is an
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