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Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 98 - Lent Term 2023
Features
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Evolving Origins
Celebrating Darwin in Conversation, the decades-long project that explored the lives and work of Darwin’s correspondents.
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That’s what I call the 90s
Britpop, Ross and Rachel, cyber cafés, Cool Britannia, Tamagotchis and doing the Macarena. Think the 1990s were frivolous? Think again.
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Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha is set to inherit a world completely unrecognisable from the one their parents and grandparents remember. We uncover what childhood looks like in 2023.
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City of refuge
From London students escaping the Blitz to Ukrainian students fleeing the Russian invasion, Cambridge has long offered a place of safety.
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A world to you without oppression
Imagine, says Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa, what your life would be like without sexism, racism, fat oppression and class distinction.
Regulars
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Inbox: CAM 98
Read the editor’s letter and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 97.
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Campendium: Lent Term 2023
Solving grammar’s greatest puzzle, meat-free Fridays and a new maths school to open.
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You gotta have souls!
With an annual pilgrimage to the outer reaches of… Castle Mount, the Sci-Fi Society is nothing if not adventurous.
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Jamie Roberts: K39 Erasmus, Queens’
Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby legend Jamie Roberts and Third Year student Lara Greening compare injuries, curtains and the best views in Queens’
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For true equality in postgrad education, we need a new vision
Professor Bhaskar Vira on making postgrad education more accessible.
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“I wanted something that would push me out of my comfort zone, take me to new places and allow me to make a tangible impact”
An alumni life: Janina Schnick (Magdalene 2007) on what it really takes to work in international development.
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“I found someone I could be serious about, and the focus of music was addictive”
Opera singer Gabrielle Haigh (Clare 2010) uses favourite memories to conjure emotions in her performances, and says her time at Cambridge is a rich source.
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This idea must die: “AI will outsmart the human race”
“There’s no hint of consciousness in any of the AI mechanisms currently out there”, says Professor Anna Korhonen.
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Search it up!
Your directory to alumni life: events, benefits and updates.
Editor’s pick
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Sun King
What happens when an emperor decides to change the religion of an entire people? Forget the Tudors. This is reformation – and counter-reformation – ancient Egyptian style.
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Reasons to feel hopeful
Living through dark times can be challenging. It takes resilience, courage and, above all, hope. But what is hope exactly? CAM investigates.
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‘The candles were lit, the Benjamin West painting was radiating, and I just thought ‘Wow!’’
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope (Trinity 1983), shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge.
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Bop On
It is the quintessential College entertainment. From classic school disco at Homerton to dubstep at Clare Cellars, the bop has it all: music, dancing, friends and, if you’re lucky, a somewhat sticky carpet