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Pain in The Machine is a short documentary that considers whether robots should feel pain. Once you've watched our film, please take a moment to complete our short survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PainintheMachineSurvey Pain is a feeling that most would describe as being unpleasant, both physically and emotionally. Why then do humans and other animals have pain, and how is it useful?

For more information about studying at Cambridge: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/ 0:00 - Intro 0:32 - School background 1:44 - Student finance 2:58 - State schools vs independent schools 3:52 - Settling in at university 5:12 - Choosing a College 6:24 - The most important part of the application process 7:12 - Interview success 7:52 - Student workload 9:18 - Shy students at interview

The 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.

A chemical found in our breath could provide a flag to warn of dangerously-low blood sugar levels in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to new research the University of Cambridge. The finding, published today in the journal Diabetes Care, could explain why some dogs can be trained to spot the warning signs in patients. The researchers found that levels of the chemical isoprene rose

An inspiring and insightful lecture by Sir David Attenborough in the University of Cambridge Senate House marked the official launch of the Cambridge Conservation Campus. The Campus, due to be complete towards the end of 2015, will become the hub for the world's largest conservation cluster, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). It will be an international centre of interdisciplinary

Dozens of Cambridge University undergraduates come from care backgrounds and/or are estranged from their families, like Lily-Rose and Connall. Both met through the Realise Project, which aims to encourage more young people from similar backgrounds to go to University. They say the following schemes were incredibly useful in allowing them to focus on their studies: Realise Project-

On 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

So, 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

More information on the matches here: https://cuafc.org/varsity-24 ⚽ The women and men of CUAFC have six Varsity games coming up this month, starting at the home of @OxfordCity this Sunday and then at @CambridgeUnitedFootballClub on the 15th March 2024. ️ @damifadun asks club-mates; Anna, Abbie, Tom and Ife about how they are preparing for their big games and about what it's like to be part

Richard Watson, #futurist-in-Residence at the Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School, talks about the future of energy, health and AI – and the most dangerous idea in the world. Read more: www.cam.ac.uk/this-cambridge-life/the-futurist-who-would-like-the-future-to-slow-down Listen to Richard discuss the future of AI – its potential benefits and harms – in our recent Mind