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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 -
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 -
'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 -
Managing workload at Cambridge University
Duration: 00:02:01
Published Date: 2022/10/26What does time on and time off look like for you? Kit from Student Minds Cambridge and Zaynab from Cambridge Students' Union share their tips on managing workload and staying well at Cambridge #ReachOutCambridge #MentalHealth #CambridgeStudents #CambridgeUniversity #StudentLife #TakeABreak #Wellbeing -
Maarten Hajer: Reframing Climate Policy
Duration: 00:52:24
Published Date: 2010/07/06Professor Maarten Hajer (Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam), 'Reframing Climate Policy: Reflections on Science, Politics and the Role of the State'. Professor Hajer was delivering the keynote address at the conference 'Democratising Futures' (28 May). Part of the Mellon Sawyer sponsored seminar series -
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. -
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 -
Cambridge Vloggers at ACS Access Conference 2018
Duration: 00:03:32
Published Date: 2018/09/07Nissy Tee, Ibz Mo and Courtney Daniella offer advice and encouragement to all the students who attended the African-Caribbean Society's 2018 Access Conference. -
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 -
The role the Biology research base has to play in policy
Duration: 00:04:24
Published Date: 2013/05/15Douglas Kell, Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) looks back to C.P.Snow's famous "Two Cultures" lecture of 1959 and discusses the role the Biology research base to policy making today. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
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? -
#WhyMyCollege : St Edmund's College
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Published Date: 2022/10/20Fergus shares his reasons for picking @StEdmundsCollegeCambridge #WhyMyCollege #Education #ALevels #EduTok -
3D-printed robot hand ‘plays’ the piano
Duration: 00:01:01
Published Date: 2018/12/19Scientists have developed a 3D-printed robotic hand which can play simple musical phrases on the piano by just moving its wrist. And while the robot is no virtuoso, it demonstrates just how challenging it is to replicate all the abilities of a human hand, and how much complex movement can still be achieved through design. -
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. -
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 -
Darwin's mother and the miniature: with Randal Keynes
Duration: 00:14:33
Published Date: 2011/02/17Charles Darwin's mother Susannah Wedgwood died when he was just eight, and he could never remember her face - until he discovered a long-hidden portrait of her as a young woman. Hear Darwin's great-great-grandson Randal Keynes explain why finally seeing this miniature of his mother (on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum) was so significant for the great naturalist, and why portraits of loved ones -
The Monarchy with David Starkey
Duration: 00:52:08
Published Date: 2009/09/29With Dr. David Starkey. More than the biographies of the kings and queens of England, this lecture is an in depth examination of what the English monarchy has meant, in terms of the expression of the individual, the Mother of Parliaments, Magna Carta, the laws of England and the land of England. The importance of the rich heritage of the Anglo Saxon kings is featured but it does not stop there.
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