Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 102 - Easter term 2024
Features
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Helping hands
Finding answers to the really big questions no longer depends on human ingenuity alone: machine science is enabling scientists to go further faster than ever before.
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Bumps
You’ll never make the Blue Boat, and Blondie and Goldie are only a dream. But you still fancy your day on the water with an oar in your hand. It’s time for messing about on the river.
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Good memories: a life dedicated to the mind
Professor Carol Brayne has pioneered specialist research into dementia prevention and treatment, dedicating her life to a world where medicine meets statistics.
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Page-turners, eye-openers, brain-blowers. Your summer reading is here…
Cambridge students, academics and alumni share what books they will – and should – be packing in their suitcase.
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Evolution. But not as we know it.
Forget the Tree of Life, meet the Network of Life: a new model that is about to change everything you think you know about the principles of evolution.
Regulars
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Inbox: CAM 102
Read the editor’s letter and all your emails, comments and posts in response to CAM 101.
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Campendium: Easter Term 2024
A Neanderthal skull, Medieval money mystery and recycling cement.
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Crash, bang, squelch, splat, whoosh, pop!
Creating CHaOs – the students taking their love of science to UK schools.
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Dharshini David returns to K15, Downing College
Journalist Dharshini David meets Jiyaad Ali to discuss the challenges of a work-life balance and why the must-have gadget in her day was… a microwave.
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Mapping the world of great women and their incredible stories
Sandi Toksvig (Girton 1977) discusses the Mappa Mundi project.
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School of thought: the real impact of social inequality on progress
Study shows disadvantaged children’s struggles are not down to a simple lack of character or attitude.
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We had a show called Too Marvellous for Words. One review said: “It’s not”
For David Pickard, Cambridge was about discovering new music, converting people to opera… and performing terrible shows in Edinburgh.
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This idea must die: “Small island economies aren’t worth investing in”
Dr Nazia Habib says we must focus on the potential – not the challenges – of isolated island communities.
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