Issue - Any -Issue 104Issue 103Issue 102Issue 101Issue 100Issue 99Issue 98Issue 97 Type - Any -Alumni lifeFeaturesBrainwavesCrosswordDon's diaryDownloadInboxMuseoMy room, your roomNewsSchool of thoughtShelfieSoundtrackStudent lifeThis idea must dieUniversity matters Topic - Any -Arts, humanities and societyBusiness and financeScience, medicine and technologySports, hobbies and personal stories Crossword / A Leisurely Pursuit by Nimrod Solvers must find ways to connect four groups of three (including three nonstandard phrases) from realms – one group each – of history, geography, science/nature and entertainment. Wordplay in each of the normally numbered clues leads to the answer with an extra letter not entered in the grid. Soundtrack / I went to an organ concert at Selwyn and, for the first time, my body felt quiet Linseigh Green spent much of her Master’s at the Institute of Continuing Education in lockdown, but that was the least of her challenges. Museo / Platypus matters Surprise discovery reveals a physical link to one of science’s most significant findings – and validates the theory of evolution. Student life / Eye on the ball As if juggling wasn’t tricky enough a skill to master, the Cambridge University Jugglers’ Association (CUJA) has found the perfect way to up the ante: combining it with surely the most Cambridge of all pastimes. This idea must die / This Idea Must Die: "Planting trees will solve climate crisis" Professor Marc Macias-Fauria says tree planting at high latitudes will accelerate, not decelerate, global warming. School of thought / School of thought A new study shows teaching empathy has improved conduct, awareness, wellbeing and curiosity. My room, your room / My room, your room Work. Socialising. Hobbies. Lots of hobbies. Comedian and podcaster Phil Wang and economist George Bland discuss the art of balancing your Cambridge life. News / Lent edition- Campendium CAM's summary of what's been happening across the University. Inbox / Editor's letter and inbox Welcome to the Lent edition of CAM Features / The write stuff Poems. Plays. Short stories. Novels, all sorts. Whether published in The Mays, on stage at the ADC or entered for one of the many College prizes, student writing in Cambridge fizzes with energy and experimentation. How could we resist? Features / Photosynthesis is a superpower Take some carbon dioxide and throw in a little water. Add sunlight and chlorophyll. What do you get? Oxygen, sugar… and the key to life on Earth. Photosynthesis is the plant superpower, and this ability to convert light energy – the most abundant energy source on Earth – into chemicals is what keeps us humans alive. But what if we could develop a hack that allows us to siphon off some energy from this process? Are clean energy systems that rewire photosynthesis actually such an improbable idea? Features / A History of History Everything humans do is in History,” says Regius Professor of History Chris Clark. “It’s like the largest imaginable novel, the richest treasure house of human material you could possibly ask for.” And History as a field of human inquiry is as old as, well, History itself. Its written beginnings lie among Ancient Egyptian records of the pharaohs, the analyses of Herodotus and Thucydides, the lively narratives of China’s ‘Grand Historian’ Sima Qian. In 1724, History became a formal subject of study at Cambridge with the founding by King George I of the University’s Regius Professorship, held by Clark for the past decade. Pages123456789next ›last »
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