Cambridge University (videos of March 2017)

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19:15 Dogs, Daughters and "Disinheritance" in the Supreme Court In Ilott v The Blue Cross [2017] UKSC 17 the Supreme Court considered the competing claims of the animal charities included in a woman's will and her estranged adult daughter, who was excluded from... CC
7:40 Understanding the OCD Brain part 3 : Inside a patient's head Science writer David Adam has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In the third of a series of films, he visits the University of Cambridge to find out what is going on inside his brain and to hear... CC
15:11 Understanding the OCD Brain part 2: Animal research at Cambridge Science writer David Adam has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In the second of a series of films, he meets researchers at the University of Cambridge to find out what animals – rats and marmos... CC
7:32 Understanding the OCD Brain part 1: OCD and me Science writer David Adam has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In the first of a series of films, he meets Professor Trevor Robbins, Head of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, to find o... CC
1:11 Curious Objects: Sumerian Clay Tablet This curious object is a 4200 year old Sumerian clay tablet and is the oldest example of writing at Cambridge University Library. So what ancient wisdom does this historic tablet contain? Is it phi...CC
0:48 Curious Objects: The Egyptian Drinking Vessel This curious object is the oldest man-made object in the library and comes from pre-dynastic Egypt, sometime between 3900 and 3650 BCE. CC
2:21 ERC short: Prof Chris Jiggins So what has the ERC ever done for us? Prof Chris Jiggins discusses his ERC-funded research into butterflies and speciation.
1:49 ERC short Simon Goldhill So what has the ERC ever done for us...? Prof Simon Goldhill, Director of CRASSH, discusses his ERC-funded project "Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth Century Culture".
5:11 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - The Results
3:21 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Tessa Bertozzi
3:12 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Daniel O'Donovan
3:22 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Simon White
2:46 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Kathryn Feller
2:59 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Katie Hassell
3:24 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Alice Carstairs  3:05 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Nicholas Ader
3:10 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Sarah Madden
3:17 Fame Lab Cambridge Final 2017 - Ramya Gurunathan
0:48 Varsity players wear ‘Rainbow Laces’ in support of LGBT+ community Cambridge Varsity squads joined the Stonewall Rainbow Laces campaign to kick homophobia out of sport.
Players from the University’s women’s and men’s rugby squads and the women’s football team s...CC
2:10 ERC short: Dr Christos Lynteris So what has the ERC ever done for us...? Dr Christos Lynteris discusses his ERC-funded research project, "Visual representations of the third plague pandemic".
2:03 ERC short: Dr Debora Sijacki So what has the ERC ever done for us...? Dr Debora Sijacki discusses her ERC-funded research into black holes and their host galaxies.
2:31 ERC short: Prof Ruth Cameron What has the ERC ever done for us? Prof Ruth Cameron (Materials Science and Metallurgy) explains how an ERC grant allowed her team to develop a new biomedical technology.
2:31 ERC short: Prof Nicholas Thomas So what has the ERC ever done for us...? Prof Nicholas Thomas, Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, explains how an ERC grant supported the project "Pacific Presences: Oceanic Ar...
0:49 Visualising the genome: researchers create first 3D structures of active DNA Scientists have determined the first 3D structures of intact mammalian genomes from individual cells, showing how the DNA from all the chromosomes intricately folds to fit together inside the cell ...
2:33 ERC short: Prof Ottoline Leyser So what has the ERC ever done for us...? Professor Ottoline Leyser, Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, discusses how an ERC grant has allowed her to carry out research into plant nutrition and b...
3:21 ERC short: Prof Clive Oppenheimer So what has the ERC ever done for us...? Prof Clive Oppenheimer talks about his ERC-funded research into volcanic activity.
3:09 ERC short: Prof David Baulcombe So what has the ERC ever done for us...? Prof David Baulcombe discusses how being awarded two ERC grants has allowed him to carry out innovative research on epigenetics and genetic regulation in pl...
7:33 Great Austerity Debate - Menagerie Theatre Co. A documentary about the collaboration between Menagerie Theatre Company, and Mia Gray & Susan Smith of Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge
21:43 Cambridge & the ERC: 10 years of research excellence So what has the ERC ever done for us...? To mark the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council, 10 Cambridge academics discuss the impact of being awarded prestigious ERC grants.
2:37 ERC short: Dr Marta Mirazón Lahr So what has the ERC ever done for us...? Dr Marta Mirazon Lahr discusses her research project, "In Africa"
1:59 Dr Iris Möller - Department of Geography - University of Cambridge Dr Iris Möller of the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit at the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge explains how an understanding of natural processes and landforms can help us deve...
2:51 The Robber Fly – Top Gun of the fly world The robber fly is the size of a grain of rice, but it could be described as the Top Gun of the fly world. It has the ability to spot and catch prey more than half a metre away in less than half a...CC
3:05 Abandoned Liszt opera brought to life - Trailer A great Italian opera by Franz Liszt – which was left incomplete and has lain largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries – will be given its world premiere this summer after bei...CC
2:30 Abandoned Liszt opera brought to life A great Italian opera by Franz Liszt – which was left incomplete and has lain largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries – will be given its world premiere this summer after bei...
0:55 Curious Objects: Soyuz- Apollo space badge Greetings, Comrades! This Curious Object is a Soviet lapel pin celebrating one of the most symbolic technological achievements of the 20th century.
After decades of intense rivalry between the Sov...CC
1:01 Curious Objects: Pocket Globe All the world’s a stage! But in the case of this Curious Object, the world is a tiny pocket globe covered in sharkskin and lined with a celestial chart.
Measuring just 7cm in diameter, this globe ...CC