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Cambridge rowing has a new home – this £5million boathouse opened on Saturday and will house three of the University’s best known boat clubs, including those due to face Oxford in the Boat Race next April. The squads will undergo months of training here throughout the winter in preparation for those Races, which will be watched by more than 6m people around the world. With state of the art

Can we begin to move our politics and public conversations from strident, polarised debate to peaceful dialogue - acknowledging the reality of our dependence on each other? Go to www.slido.com and enter code G489 to chat about the event. In this session, our three speakers look at how the cycles of polarisation and extremism sweeping the world might be broken. How do we shift the dialogue? At its

The new CUSU committee have now taken up their new posts ahead of the 2018/19 term. Before the hand over they enjoyed mixing with their predecessors at the CUSU Garden Party at Sidney Sussex College.

Meet 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

A message for new beginnings from Ecclesiastes 7:8-12 in the Hebrew Bible. Read by Srecko Koralija of the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Cambridge. See a digitised copy of this 500-year-old manuscript in Cambridge University Library: http://bit.ly/HebrewBibleBeginningsMessage

Why can humans alone invent? In this talk, based on his new book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen will put forward a bold new theory: because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then patterns. And he argues that the genes for this unique ability overlap with the genes for autism. Go to www.slido.com and enter code 43439 to chat about the event. From the

In 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

This short film examines some possible policy responses to the shortage of affordable housing supply in the UK. It argues that a large increase in house building is needed, much of which should be new dwellings that are affordable to rent by households on low incomes. It explains the use in other countries of policies that link initiatives to increase housing production, ensure that housing is of

Each New Year brings new diets and health fads; carnivore, keto, paleo, plant-based. But what actually works? Dr Giles Yeo explores how to break the cycle of pseudo-science and misinformation surrounding the world of dieting as he discusses his ‘anti-diet’ diet book.

Some of the most deprived areas in England are located in the eastern region. The New Horizons project run by housing association CHS Group, with the help of Cambridge University researchers, has been helping those furthest away from the job market to get back into work.