7 billion: The crowded planet
29 September 2011On the eve of the world’s population reaching 7 billion, leading minds discuss what the future holds for our increasingly crowded planet.
I’d love to smash the Ritz…
29 September 2011Social psychologist and best-selling author Dr Kevin Dutton, Research Fellow at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, puts the recent riots under the microscope...
‘Picture This #6′ – Samuel Butler's translation of the 'Odyssey', St John's College.
28 September 2011Samuel Butler was a man with big ideas and a big imagination. He wrote on literature, science, art and religion, always thinking outside the box...
Confronting homophobia in South Africa
27 September 2011Cambridge academic Dr Andrew Tucker champions a direct approach to challenging the homophobia that destroys so many lives in South Africa. He has helped to...
Magic and medicine
27 September 2011A digital resource dedicated to Simon Forman, the notorious, self-styled astrologer-physician, later dubbed the 'Elizabethan Pepys', has been launched to mark the 400th anniversary of...
What makes a great political speech?
27 September 2011Cambridge Festival of Ideas debate to examine the changing nature of political speeches.
Cambridge Ideas - Memories Of Old Awake
26 September 2011Cambridge University academic, Dr Emily Lethbridge, is breathing new life and understanding into the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) during a unique year-long research trip.
...Professor Sir Mark Welland receives two distinguished awards by US government
26 September 2011Professor Sir Mark Welland, head of The Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge University and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, has been awarded two...
Smartphone art
25 September 2011As mobile phone cameras improve, emerging forms of social media are basing themselves in ‘iPhoneography’. While social media is often held up as an example...
Children’s literature an escape from the adult world
24 September 2011A University of Cambridge academic is to suggest that grown-ups enjoy children’s classics because they are dissatisfied with life in the adult world.