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| Created: | 2008-08-06 10:32 |
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| Institution: | Office of External Affairs and Communications |
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Economic anthropology and the exchange of wealth
An introductory talk describing the exchange of wealth as analysed by social anthropologists.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 14 Aug 2008
Economic anthropology and the production of wealth
An introductory talk describing the production, of wealth as analysed by social anthropologists.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 14 Aug 2008
Encouraging the Learning of Languages
School students are encouraged to improve their language skills by pursuing modern languages in higher education.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 8 Aug 2008
Enemies and friends of the state
One of eight lectures for first year Cambridge University students in February 2006. Introducing some of the major approaches to the anthropology of politics and economics.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 14 Aug 2008
English as a Second Language
University of Cambridge students go into the community to teach English to children for whom it is a second language.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 6 Aug 2008
Enigma and the Turing Bombe
This lecture gives a description of the Enigma machine and how it was used operationally by the Germans, followed by an explanation of the how the Enigma messages were broken with...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 12 Aug 2008
Excerpts from A Cambridge Mass
An early work by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is to be performed for the first time after being spotted in an exhibition at Cambridge University Library.
The score of A...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 12 Oct 2010
Exploring English
Young people engage with poetry through rap, and new websites.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 6 Aug 2008
Exploring Museums
Young people challenge their perceptions about museums and explore museums in Cambridge.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 6 Aug 2008
Festival Of Ideas 2008
An introduction to the first Cambridge Festival Of Ideas.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 26 Jun 2009
Finding Funding
In this lecture you'll gain an overview of the different sources of finance available to early stage businesses and an insight into the minds of potential investors. Gaining...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 8 Aug 2008
From Reason to Revolution Art and Society in Eighteenth Century Britain
In this podcast Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge provides a personal introduction to the Museum's exhibition 'From Reason to Revolution: Art and...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 6 Aug 2008
Future Directions in Conservation Sciences
Professor Bill Sutherland wrote The Conservation Handbook and the snappily titled From Individual Behaviour to Population Biology. He is interested in finding means of providing...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 15 Sep 2008
Future Engineers
Children are introduced to basic engineering skills at science festivals, to show that science is applicable to everyday life.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 6 Aug 2008
Getting a Clear Vision
This session is about setting out a big vision, how ideas can lead to a big vision which, when commercialised, can make a big difference to society and benefit the inventors. You...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 8 Aug 2008
Global Health
Panel Discussion at Cambridge in America Day, San Francisco, Grand Hyatt Union Square, March 31, 2007. Moderator, Bernard Rivers, Aidspan Founder and Director, Alumnus, Queens...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 19 Sep 2008
Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible
This item is part of the Alumni Weekend 2007 collection of the Alumni Office. To view more media from the Alumni Office, please visit the Alumni Office video page. (Please note:...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 7 Aug 2008
Gregarious and solitary locusts.
Both behaviour and appearance of locusts change as they go from solitary locust, being propelled by other locusts, to a gregarious locust, seeking other locusts out. In the top...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 29 Jan 2009
Hands on Maths
Young people are taught maths through hands-on puzzles and one-to-one sessions.
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 6 Aug 2008
HIV and the Naked Ape
Although human DNA is 98 percent similar to that of the chimpanzee, the infections we catch are 80 percent different. Some pathogens have co-evolved with the host since...
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Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 11 Aug 2008
