Cambridge Ideas
| Created: | 2009-03-18 16:42 |
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| Institution: | Office of External Affairs and Communications |
| Editors' group: | SMS uploaders group for "Office of Communications". |
| Description: | Communicating the transformative impact on society of eight centuries of brilliant academic thought. Cambridge research together with comment and opinion on national and international current affairs.
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Cambridge Ideas - The Perfect Crew?
Striving for, and achieving, high performance in teams has become a major business imperative. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research with the Cambridge University Boat...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 31 Mar 2011
Cambridge Ideas - Bird Tango
Professor Nicky Clayton researches the social behaviour, intelligence and dance credentials of birds! As an accomplished dancer in her own right she has fused her passions by...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 12 Oct 2010
Cambridge Ideas - Don't Eat the Plants
Are plants as defenceless as they appear? See the world how the plants do, as Professor John Parker, explores how plants – the ‘great scientists of the animal kingdom’ – have...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 23 May 2011
Cambridge Ideas - Forgotten Heroes
A Cambridge University archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the testimonies of people who were deported...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 17 Nov 2010
Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?
Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising conclusions about the way...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 20 May 2011
Cambridge Ideas - Just Add Water
Rotifers are tiny animals that survive against all the odds. They are also known for not having had sex for 80 million years.
We follow Dr Alan Tunnacliffe, award-winning...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 30 Sep 2010
Cambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
David Spiegelhalter's proper title is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. He is in two minds (literally) about playing it safe or chucking caution to the wind....
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010
Cambridge Ideas - Seven Ages of the Body
Dr John Robb is an archaeologist and has been studying how people have understood the human body over the last 10,000 years.
“It may seem surprising to think the human body...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 31 Aug 2010
Cambridge Ideas - Sticky Feet
Ants have incredibly sticky feet. With them they can hang onto ceilings, while carrying 100 times their body weight. But if they are stuck down so successfully - how do they ever...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 12 Apr 2011
Cambridge Ideas - Strange Seas of Thought
A journey into Wordsworth's mind and the process of creation. We know about the experiments that have led to great scientific discoveries is widely recognised. But how much do we...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 30 Mar 2011
Cambridge Ideas - The Crime Experiment
Eminent criminologist Prof Lawrence Sherman has just set up a long term experiment with the police, to scientifically study crime in Manchester and come up with some solutions....
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010
Cambridge Ideas - The Emotional Computer
Can computers understand emotions? Can computers express emotions? Can they feel emotions? The latest video from the University of Cambridge shows how emotions can be used to...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 22 Dec 2010
Cambridge Ideas - The Music In Me
Dr Jason Rentfrow, from the University's Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, explores the links between personality and musical taste.
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 12 Oct 2010
Cambridge Ideas - This Icy World
Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.
As Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 21 Feb 2011
Cambridge Ideas - Vanishing Voices
Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century. Dr Mark Turin, director of the World Oral Literature Project, has spent much of his...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
