Articles

For composer and conductor Adam Pounds (Trinity Hall 2002), completing a Master’s at Cambridge was the ultimate balancing act.

Behind the shifty nominations, bizarre stunts, attempts to rig the results and a lot – a lot! – of peacocking, the process of becoming a Big Name On Campus is a serious business. But where did this annual celebration of everything Cambridge come from, and how has it evolved to assume its now legendary status?

The fascinating saga behind a graffitied blue plaque and its ‘missing’ inscription is now the centrepiece of a display at the Whipple Museum.

Mind-bending speed. Extraordinary accuracy. And… no data storage to speak of. Quantum computing holds immense potential, but while quantum memory can store vast amounts of data, that storage is ‘non-persistent’ – it can only hang on to it for around 100 milliseconds. Oh, and did we mention it will only work below -273°C?

The Women’s Art Collection, held at Murray Edwards, is Europe’s largest collection of art by women. Here is the world through women’s eyes.

Dr Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar swapped her research on supersymmetry for a chance to reduce mortality from ovarian cancers.

CAM 103's crossword celebrated fashionable individuals and non-conformists.

The parasocial relationship – a one-sided friendship, typically focused on a celebrity – is not new, but it has recently become turbo-charged. Should we be worried?

How does Cambridge fit into the mesh of money, people and culture created by the transatlantic slave trade? A new research project is making discoveries about the objects in its collections, the people who collected them and how their stories connect Cambridge to a global history of colonialism.

Intrepid traveller John Simpson returns to his room at Magdalene to find current occupant Ben Weidmann – and one very welcome addition.

This idea must die: “Obesity is caused by lack of willpower”

CAM 102's crossword, Missing Title by Nimrod, had for its theme an 'Only Connect' wall.