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Opinion: Aliens, very strange universes and Brexit – Martin Rees |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-aliens-very-strange-universes-and-brexit-martin-rees3 Apr 2017: My guess is that if we do detect an alien intelligence, it will be nothing like us. ... Q: In the medieval world, people would start building cathedrals that only later generations would finish. -
Public events | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/public-events1 Feb 2013: Have a question about…well, anything? We're looking for questions from people of all ages, people just like you! ... From aliens, bees and climate change to xenophobia, youthquakes or even zombies, whatever your question, we know experts searching for -
sleeping | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/sleeping19 Jul 2024: 12 Aug 2020. Sleep paralysis – a condition thought to explain a number of mysterious experiences including alleged cases of alien abduction and demonic night-time. ... 25 Feb 2015. People who sleep for more than eight hours a day have an increased risk -
The Cambridge Science Festival: tickets to book before they’re gone | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/the-cambridge-science-festival-tickets-to-book-before-theyre-gone3 Feb 2017: The programme for the 2017 Festival has just been released. Aimed at sparking scientific debate and inspiring young people to take an interest in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, the ... live. We thank all our scientists and the city -
Russian attempts to invoke international law dismantled
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/weller-ukraine9 Mar 2022: Here it has been argued that the people of Donetsk were subjected to attacks for the past eight years. ... There was no genocide perpetrated against the people of Donbas. No overwhelming humanitarian emergency existed. -
Stephen Hawking - An appreciation by Lord Martin Rees | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stephen-hawking-an-appreciation-by-lord-martin-rees14 Mar 2018: Why did he become such a 'cult figure'? The concept of an imprisoned mind roaming the cosmos plainly grabbed people's imagination. ... So was his 75th birthday, though now shared by several million people via a live-stream on the internet. -
Classical Shorts is a series of films created for ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/drama_teacher_resources.pdf20 Jan 2023: Comedy Ancient Greek Comedy is usually about ordinary people in the contemporary society, often with a bit of fantasy thrown in. ... Shoaling Get together a group of three people. Stand together in a tight clump. -
Power to the people? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/power-to-the-people26 May 2010: The Lincolnian definition, for instance, was government of the People by the People for the People. ... Please read our email privacy notice for details. Subjects. People. 2024 University of Cambridge. -
Cambridge Science Festival | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/Cambridge-Science-Festival19 Jul 2024: 13 Mar 2017. Do aliens exist? Can brain scans reveal our naughtiest thoughts? ... What keeps people fit. 17 Mar 2014. A remarkable new project that looks at brain donor’s involvement in brain research and the search for cures for dementia will be -
Cinema has helped 'entrench' gender inequality in AI
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/whomakesAI13 Feb 2023: The LCFI team point to previous research showing that people across age groups associate exceptional intellectual ability with men – the “brilliance bias” – and argue that the stereotype of AI scientists as ... Quintessa, the female alien in -
Fantasy adventures of early-modern Walter Mitty go on show |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/fantasy-adventures-of-early-modern-walter-mitty-go-on-show13 Mar 2014: His tales, imaginative as they are, fit into a wider genre featuring grotesque creatures, sea monsters and alien, exotic peoples, images that enthralled audiences who had never left their home country. ... His tales, imaginative as they are, fit into a -
Migration: Britain’s hospitable past | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/migration-britains-hospitable-past10 Feb 2014: The Aliens Act was passed in 1905 aiming to restrict the entry of European Jews. ... Historians have long assessed the Aliens Act as a high point (low point) of British anti-Semitism. -
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Claire Hynes
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/claire-hynes8 Mar 2024: To address the disconnection between Black people’s lived experiences and the strange, sometimes warped, representations of those experiences. ... In order to move beyond ‘ tickboxing’, questions need to be asked about the fairness of systems and -
2 Media and Identity in Wartime Donbas, 2014-2017 Jon ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/jon_roozenbeek_-_media_and_identity_in_wartime_donbas_2014-2017.pdf27 Apr 2022: called Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” (DNR and LNR) in eastern Ukraine,. ... 10. 0 Introduction. 11. 0.1 The Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics”. -
University of Cambridge Research Horizons magazine Issue 31
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_31_research_horizons.pdf19 Oct 2016: Around 3.5 billion people use the internet – that’s almost half of the world population. ... The hardest thing for me was getting people to buy into the idea as it was. -
Nanomaterials Up Close: Gum Arabic | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/nanomaterials-up-close-gum-arabic30 Jun 2014: We reveal its smooth and alien texture, and the beauty hidden in this plain speck of dust. ... By covering it in a nanoscale layer of gold, and bombarding it with electrons in a vacuum, we reveal its smooth and alien texture, and the beauty hidden in -
Science games for kids | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/science-games-for-kids6 Sep 2004: So many people do not really understand what engineering is all about, and it is important that those children who get inspired by science also consider engineering as a potential career.". ... The Engineering Interact games include:. Alien Attack - -
Unexpected experiences
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/UE-Catherine-Arnold9 Oct 2020: The Prime Minister gave the British people a very simple instruction – you must stay at home. ... What do you do with nearly 200 people living on nine acres in a national lockdown? -
Your chance to meet the stars | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/your-chance-to-meet-the-stars30 Nov 2012: The event is free but people wishing to attend will need a ticket. ... Around 113,000 people took part in Stargazing Live events around the UK last year. -
Meditation-relaxation therapy may offer escape from the terror of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/meditation-relaxation-therapy-may-offer-escape-from-the-terror-of-sleep-paralysis12 Aug 2020: But for some people, the fear that it can instil in them can be extremely unpleasant, and going to bed, which should be a relaxing experience, can become fraught with terror. ... People who experience the phenomenon often report being terrorised by -
Research Horizons
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_35_research_horizons_new.pdf1 Mar 2018: Although life expectancy for people with CF has almost doubled in recent decades, it is still significantly below average. ... resistant and spreading globally. This is one reason why people with CF are advised not to meet each other. -
How we lost our collective memory of epidemics
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/collectivememory31 Mar 2020: Image: Line of people awaiting a New Jersey Influenza vaccination, also known as the Swine Flu. ... It mostly causes serious disease predominantly in the unfortunate people who fall into the relatively few susceptible groups. -
Whiteness of AI erases people of colour from our ‘imagined futures’,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/whiteness-of-ai-erases-people-of-colour-from-our-imagined-futures-researchers-argue6 Aug 2020: Search. Search. Whiteness of AI erases people of colour from our ‘imagined futures’, researchers argue. ... Research. Whiteness of AI erases people of colour from our ‘imagined futures’, researchers argue.. -
Understanding the past, shaping the future | Vice-Chancellor's…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/understanding-the-past-shaping-the-future-vice-chancellors-blog13 May 2019: When I was at the University of British Columbia, we struggled, like all Canadian institutions, to be genuinely open to the life experience and unique insights of indigenous peoples. ... Cambridge can, at first glance, seem an alien and even forbidding -
Bookings open for the first Cambridge Festival
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridgefestival22 Feb 2021: Melbourne, as he reflects on traditional knowledge, Indigenous Peoples and what lessons we can learn to help planet earth. ... With in-depth and thought-provoking conversations around the tipping points of climate change and what this actually means to -
WHO MAKES AI? FINAL REPORT
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/who_makes_ai_final_report_12_feb.pdf12 Feb 2023: The total number of AIengineers or scientists shown was 116. Of these 116 AIengineers or scientists, 88 were men; 10 were male robots,aliens, animals or AIs; and 9 were corporations ... Numerous studies demonstrate that people across different age groups -
Brain training app helps reduce OCD symptoms, study finds |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brain-training-app-helps-reduce-ocd-symptoms-study-finds23 Oct 2018: This may be in part because often people with OCD have suffered for years prior to receiving a diagnosis and treatment. ... For these reasons, Cambridge researchers developed a new treatment to help people with contamination fears and excessive washing. -
EX-TRA-PO-LATE! Moral philosophy and the Daleks | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ex-tra-po-late-moral-philosophy-and-the-daleks19 Apr 2011: This in itself is nothing new – since time immemorial evil people have been described as animals, because animals are not rational. ... Please read our email privacy notice for details. Subjects. People. 2024 University of Cambridge. -
$10m endowment will secure the future of world leading environment…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/10m-endowment-will-secure-the-future-of-world-leading-environment-conservation-initiative-at26 Sep 2017: Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. As life on earth comes under pressure as never before, with threats including habitat destruction, pollution, invasion by alien species -
University of Cambridge Research Horizons
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_17_research_horizons.pdf7 Feb 2012: The system could provide safe,sustainable and affordable power for some ofthe 1.6 billion people worldwide withoutaccess to electricity. ... By buildingaccessible tools and strengthening theevidence base for decision makers, we canhelp them make wise and -
'Extreme Sleepover #1’ – breathless at Everest base camp |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/extreme-sleepover-1-breathless-at-everest-base-camp22 Dec 2011: No rock flowers and no birds here; just a few dozen yaks and 5000 tents to remind us that this is not some lifeless alien planet, but an extraordinary environment on ... Please read our email privacy notice for details. Subjects. People. -
Biological arms races in birds | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/biological-arms-races-in-birds13 Apr 2011: Brood parasitic birds such as cuckoos lay eggs that mimic those of their hosts in an effort to trick them into accepting the alien egg and raising the cuckoo chick as ... Please read our email privacy notice for details. Subjects. People. Places. -
University of Cambridge Research magazine issue 23
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_23_research_horizons.pdf3 Jun 2014: been rising gradually before the crisis with increased numbers of women and elderly people in work, may fall. ... raumatic brain injury affects 10million people a year worldwide and is the leading cause of death. -
Are we ready to meet ET? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/are-we-ready-to-meet-et5 Mar 2013: If so, could this also mean the discovery of alien life forms similar to humans? ... planet. From identifying seismic wave activity and colour patterns on these other worlds, to the use of enormous telescopes that could potentially hunt for evidence of -
Rhyme on the rise? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rhyme-on-the-rise18 Oct 2010: Recent reports by organisations like Ofsted and the UK Literacy Association (UKLA) have painted a bleak picture, suggesting that poetry is becoming almost as alien to teachers as it is to ... Please read our email privacy notice for details. Subjects. -
Objects of devotion | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/objects-of-devotion2 Feb 2012: Through rosaries, crucifixes, Christ-dolls, statuettes, religious jewellery, devotional books and paintings, pilgrim souvenirs, and even instruments of self-mortification (the hair shirts or flails with which people in this period ... And yet the -
“Map Of Life” predicts ET. (So where is he?) | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/map-of-life-predicts-et-so-where-is-he2 Jul 2015: Given the growing number of Earth-like planets of which astronomers are now aware, it is increasingly extraordinary that aliens that look and behave something like us have not been found, ... Professor Conway Morris has previously raised the prospect -
Your chance to ‘scream in space’ using smartphone technology |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scream-in-space-using-smartphone-technology25 Oct 2012: Edward Cunningham. It was Ridley Scott’s film Alien that gave us the now legendary tagline: In space no one can hear you scream. ... Cambridge University Spaceflight (CUSF) will be uploading videos of people screaming into a specially developed -
Forest clearances sealed ancient civilisation’s downfall | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/forest-clearances-sealed-ancient-civilisations-downfall2 Nov 2009: The depictions have spawned various wild theories, including that they were created by aliens. ... Most scholars now believe that they were sacred pathways which Nasca people followed during the course of their ancient rituals. -
Disbelieve it or not, ancient history suggests that atheism is as…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/disbelieve-it-or-not-ancient-history-suggests-that-atheism-is-as-natural-to-humans-as-religion16 Feb 2016: ask someone to think hard, clearly people also thought this way in antiquity.”. ... Similarly, there was no specialised clergy telling people how to live: “The idea of a priest telling you what to do was alien to the Greek world,” Whitmarsh said. -
Shedding light on forests | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/shedding-light-on-forests21 May 2013: Forests also face less obvious threats. Introduced ‘alien’ plants can invade forests and compromise their integrity and functioning. ... Please read our email privacy notice for details. Subjects. People. Places. -
Opinion: Uncertain, nostalgic, uncomfortable and bewildered: a…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-uncertain-nostalgic-uncomfortable-and-bewildered-a-portrait-of-the-older-brexit-backer2 Jun 2016: There are a host of possible reasons why older people might be more likely to vote to leave the European Union. ... They may be xenophobic or they may distrust an alien, distant political system. -
'Extreme sleepover #20' – welcome to dataworld | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/extreme-sleepover-20-welcome-to-dataworld31 Mar 2017: We have entered the realm of data, an alien world of tiny, undulating lights that seem almost alive. ... Server cabinets become stalagmite formations sparkling frenetically with the digital activity of millions of people doing their daily things in that -
The illiterate boy who became a maharaja | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-illiterate-boy-who-became-a-maharaja31 May 2016: Not only were young Indian aristocrats tutored in gentlemanly pursuits but they were encouraged to embrace ‘virtues’ such as punctuality, diligence and discipline – qualities that British administrators thought to be alien ... He described such -
Kaiser, Reich and the making of modern Germany | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/kaiser-reich-and-the-making-of-modern-germany1 Dec 2011: Whaley believes that their story challenges much of what we think we know about Germany and its people today. ... While this political system may sound alien now, the book argues that by and large, it worked. -
Elvis is alive and the Moon landings were faked: the (conspiracy)…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/elvis-is-alive-and-the-moon-landings-were-faked-the-conspiracy-theory-of-everything25 Oct 2016: Does it really matter that some people think the moon landings were faked? ... In the end, few people believe we are ruled by alien lizards.”. -
Cambridge in Concrete: the boom years of Brutalism | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-in-concrete-the-boom-years-of-brutalism3 May 2012: They are considered eye-sores by many people, especially when compared to centuries-old chapels and courts. ... You had a public that was used to Georgian terraces and so on, and this style arrives as if alien buildings have descended from space and -
First atmospheric study of Earth-sized exoplanets using Hubble…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-atmospheric-study-of-earth-sized-exoplanets-using-hubble-telescope20 Jul 2016: Humanity’s remote exploration of alien environments has truly started. Amaury Triaud. ... Humanity’s remote exploration of alien environments has truly started,” said Amaury Triaud, a research fellow at Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. -
‘Extreme Sleepover #2’ – a night in Ghana’s tropical forest |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/extreme-sleepover-2-a-night-in-ghanas-tropical-forest23 Dec 2011: The concept of extinction is alien here. To the market women who sell bushmeat, animals are a gift from God, sent down for people to “chop”. ... Please read our email privacy notice for details. Subjects. People. -
Evolution website sets out to tackle great scientific unknowns |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/evolution-website-sets-out-to-tackle-great-scientific-unknowns18 Nov 2015: Aimed at general readers and, in particular, young people who are just starting to get into science, its aim is to provide an innovative and authoritative source of information about evolution ... As for the Martians, the answer remains similarly unclear,
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