Outlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic sagas
22 Oct 2015Rebecca Merkelbach (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic) discusses the monstrous heroes of Scandinavian mythology and literature.
The astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake
22 Oct 2015Ulinka Rublack, Professor of Early Modern European History, discusses the reputation of astronomer Johannes Kepler and his mother Katharina, and the criminal trial for witchcraft that lasted six years.
From Chinese milk to Indian chocolate, behind the world’s fast-expanding markets
21 Oct 2015Khaled Soufani (Cambridge Judge Business School), Mark Esposito (Grenoble Ecole de Management and Harvard University) and Terence Tse (i7 Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness, ESCP Europe) discuss fast-expanding markets in the world's biggest emerging economies.
Meteorite impact turns silica into stishovite in a billionth of a second
13 Oct 2015Simon Redfern from the Department of Earth Sciences discusses a study that has recreated the conditions experienced during the meteor strike that formed the Barringer Crater in Arizona.
The public must speak up about gene editing – beyond embryo modification
08 Oct 2015Lara Marks (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Silvia Camporesi (King's College London) discuss the genetic modification of human embryos and argue that an informed debate is crucial.
Cambridge and India
05 Oct 2015Cambridge’s engagement with India has evolved from scholars working on India to scholars working with, and increasingly, in India – on shared priorities, to mutual advantage. Joya Chatterji, Toby Wilkinson and Bhaskar Vira explain why this is, as we begin a month-long focus on some of our India-related research.
'Spin' or be lost: how Corbyn rejected New Labour PR for a more civic vision
29 Sep 2015Scott Anthony, Affiliated Research Scholar in the Faculty of History, discusses Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership campaign and the history of political 'spin'.
Big data shows the graduate pay premium is bigger for women
25 Sep 2015Anna Vignoles (Faculty of Education), together with colleagues at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Harvard University, authors a study that finds women with degrees earn three times as much as non-graduates within a decade of leaving university.
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Q&A with neuroscientist Dr Talal Al-Mayhani: I believe that peace will come to Syria
22 Sep 2015He trained as a medical doctor in Syria and did a PhD at Cambridge in order to set up a cancer research unit in Aleppo. In 2012, Dr Talal Al-Mayhani found himself in an impossible situation and decided to settle in the UK. He has worked hard for peace in Syria ever since – and is convinced that it will come. When it does, he will return to Aleppo.
North Korea unveils its nuclear ‘treasured swords’ to the world again
21 Sep 2015Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Beyond the Korean War Project, discusses the motivations behind North Korea's relaunch of it nuclear weapons complex.