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

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

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

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...

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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Wed 17 Nov 2010

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

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

Dr Emily Lethbridge, a Cambridge University academic, is exploring the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) during a unique year-long research trip. Emily is...

Collection: Cambridge Ideas

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Tue 27 Sep 2011

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

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...

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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Tue 31 Aug 2010

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

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...

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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Wed 30 Mar 2011

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

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...

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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Wed 22 Dec 2010

Today, we consume a truly vast amount of energy - with demand continuing to skyrocket at an alarming rate. We know that producing this energy has significant environmental impacts...

Collection: Cambridge Ideas

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 3 Aug 2012

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 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

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

The Darwin Correspondence Project is researching Charles Darwin's letters and has so far located more than 15,000 he either sent or received. The full texts of these are being...

Collection: Cambridge Ideas

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Thu 31 Jul 2014

A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and the universe beyond.

On...

Collection: Cambridge Ideas

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Thu 31 Jul 2014

Today, we consume a truly vast amount of energy - with demand continuing to skyrocket at an alarming rate. We know that producing this energy has significant environmental impacts...

Collection: Cambridge Ideas

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Tue 31 Jul 2012