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Cambridge Ideas - Memories Of Old Awake

bjb42 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:26:43 +0000

Emily is discovering that the sagas are closely intertwined with the breath-taking landscapes and the people who live there.

̽��ֱ��sagas were copied in manuscripts in Iceland from the medieval period until the early 20^th century, and the stories were passed down from one generation to another over many hundreds of years.

Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� 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.

Emily is discovering that the sagas are closely intertwined with the breath-taking landscapes and the people who live there

Cambridge Ideas - Memories Of Old Awake

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Cambridge Ideas - Don't Eat the Plants

ns480 — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:09:01 +0000

See the world as plants do, as Professor John Parker, explores how plants - the 'great chemists of this world' - have evolved strategies to defend themselves against herbivores.

̽��ֱ��latest video from the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge shows how plants use hairs, spikes and chemicals to improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores.

Are plants as defenceless as they appear?

Cambridge Ideas - Don't Eat the Plants

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Don't Eat the Plants

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Cambridge Ideas - ̽��ֱ��Crime Experiment

bjb42 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:47:00 +0000

This experiment will study crime hot spots and try out a technique Prof Sherman has developed in USA to lessen crime throughout the city by changing policing at these locations. This is the first time such a systematic experiment on city crime has been mounted in the UK.

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.

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Professor with Police Officer

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Cambridge Ideas - Forgotten Heroes

bjb42 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:47:39 +0000

̽��ֱ��project they are working on aims to document the history of protest and resistance in the Channel Islands. She described the collection as: "the single most important resistance archive ever to emerge from the Channel Islands."

A Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the testimonies of people who were deported to German prison camps during World War II.

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St Peter Port harbour

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Cambridge Ideas: This Icy World

bjb42 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:50:34 +0000

As Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge, this film follows him to Greenland and the Antarctic as his research reveals the challenges we all face from climate change.

Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.

icy world

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Cambridge Ideas - Vanishing Voices

bjb42 — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:50:11 +0000

Dr Mark Turin, director of the World Oral Literature Project, has spent much of his life travelling to remote corners of the Himalayas to study languages and cultures that are at risk and document them before they disappear without record.

Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century.

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Cambridge Ideas - Strange Seas of Thought

bjb42 — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:45:28 +0000

We know about the experiments that have led to great scientific discoveries is widely recognised. But how much do we understand about the same processes in the arts? When the poet William Wordsworth died in 1850, few if none of the thousands of lines of poetry he left had escaped constant revision and alteration, and many of his most famous poems were never published. Cambridge researcher Ruth Abbott draws on the notebooks in which he left them to investigate the creative processes, attempts, and failures that go up to make great works of art.

A journey into Wordsworth's mind and the process of creation

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Cambridge Ideas - Bird Tango

bjb42 — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:14:55 +0000

As an accomplished dancer in her own right she has fused her passions by collaborating with Rambert Dance Company to produce a Darwinian inspired ballet called ̽��ֱ��Comedy of Change.

Professor Nicky Clayton researches the social behaviour, intelligence and dance credentials of birds!

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