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Campendium: Easter Term 2024
Archaeology 200+fragments of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skull reconstructed at the Department of Archaeology, revealing the face of ‘Shanidar Z’ Philanthropy Landmark donation boosts pioneering...
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Crash, bang, squelch, splat, whoosh, pop!
Any student joining CHaOS, Cambridge’s student-run science education outreach group, must be prepared to get their hands dirty… and eat their own body weight in sweets. “We bribe our volunteers with...
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Dharshini David returns to K15, Downing College
Back in the 1990s, one particular gadget was the guarantee of social success. A CD player? A PlayStation? “A microwave!” says Dharshini David (Downing 1991). “I made a lot of friends. It meant that I...
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Mapping the world of great women and their incredible stories
Sandi Toksvig (Girton 1977) is the first Qantabrigian Q+ Fellow Sociology and a Bye-Fellow at Christ’s. What do you have to do to be a ‘notable’ woman on Wikipedia, that supposed repository of all the...
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School of thought: the real impact of social inequality on progress
What does it take for children to succeed at school? A growth mindset? A strong character? A good attitude for learning? The bootstrap argument suggests that these core elements will be enough for a...
View ArticleWe had a show called Too Marvellous for Words. One review said: “It’s not”
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This idea must die: “Small island economies aren’t worth investing in”
They may be tiny in size, but small island developing states (SIDS) – countries identified by the UN in 1992 as having unique social, economic and environmental challenges – play a crucial part on the...
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Helping hands
First there was Newton, then Einstein. But when it comes to next steps in our understanding of how the world around us actually works, it’s less a case of ‘who’ and more about ‘what’. Welcome to the...
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Bumps
Easter Term 2001, and Alex Goldsmith (St John’s 1999), Captain of the Lower Boats, crashes through the door of the St John’s bar. “Who in here rows bow side?” he bellows. Luis (Luigi) de Guzman (St...
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Good memories: a life dedicated to the mind
“I had rather a feral childhood,” says Carol Brayne, Professor of Public Health Medicine and Director of Cambridge Public Health. “The minute school was finished we’d be on the beach where we lived in...
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Campendium: Lent Term 2024
Philanthropy £56m raised so far to build the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital – halfway to the £100m target. Academic rankings Cambridge academics ranked among the top female scientists in the world...
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All that jazz!
Gabriel Margolis (Third Year, Music) If you think jazz is all about the standard Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Glenn Miller, then the Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra (CUJO) are here to make you...
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Zadie Smith: V6 Bodley’s Court, King’s
Award-winning novelist Zadie Smith (King’s 1994) and first-year History student Romeo Liyan both light on the same word to describe V6, Bodley’s Court: “luxurious”. They have a point. Tucked away at...
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Energy efficiency in housing: it’s time to act not just talk
When it comes to improving the energy efficiency of housing in the UK, it seems that we are still having the same conversations we were having 10 years ago. Why is this? It’s certainly not because we...
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VC: year one
It doesn’t happen by luck, and it doesn’t happen by magic. So, the question is: just how do you become Cambridge’s Vice-Chancellor? “That’s exactly what the King asked me!” says Professor Debbie...
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Is there anybody out there?
Ex. 1617-2/3 UFO photo and polaroid Jim Shaw, 1977In this series, photographer Jim Shaw observes how, in times of uncertainty and distrust in politics, we project our fears onto inexplicable phenomena...
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The art of borrowing
Miriam Margolyes (Newnham 1960) had never heard of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. But a small sketch of two muscular boxers, spotted on a visit to Kettle’s Yard in 1961, changed all that. “I don’t know...
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Once upon a time…
Once upon a time, on Columbus Day, Monday 10 October 1983, President Ronald Reagan watched a tape of a new TV movie, The Day After, showing the aftermath of a nuclear war with Russia in the town of...
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Down on the farm
Cambridge in February. Bitter cold. Middle of the night. As his friends stumbled in from a night out, vet student Ollie Bardsley (Magdalene, Fourth Year) got the call. It was his turn to be on lambing...
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Mike Brearley on finding harmony and being respectful of disharmony.
Michaelmas Term, 1960. Mike Brearley (St John’s 1960), classicist and soon to star as Leader of the Chorus in the Greek Play, had a choice to make. Continue with thespian life or… switch to lacrosse...
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