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Great handbags – but what about the politics?

Audiences are spellbound by Meryl Streep’s performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. As a PhD student looking at British politics in the same era, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite was keen to see how the movie portrayed the woman who changed the face of Britain.

Life extinguished, life rekindled

This year’s Darwin Lectures address the theme of life. Tonight’s speaker, Cambridge academic Dr Robert Macfarlane, will discuss “Life in Ruins” in art and literature. He will begin with a thought experiment, described below, and go on to explore the roles that ruins play in our hopes and fears.

In search of Life at Lady Mitchell Hall

Darwin College continues the popular Darwin College lecture series this week on 27 January with Life in Ruins. The annual eight week series held at Lady Mitchell Hall is free to the public and is renowned for its famous speakers and thought-provoking discussions.

Brandwashed – A sign of the times?

Branding and marketing expert to visit Cambridge Judge Business School to reveal the tricks companies use to manipulate our minds to persuade us to buy!

How wings really work

A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.

Speed and stamina: a tale of two genes

Research by a team of scientists suggests that a variant of the so-called speed gene found in top racehorses can be traced back to a single British mare living around 300 years ago. That mare may have had a similar genetic make-up to today's sturdy native ponies.

Challenging the thinking on drugs

Alternative ways of dealing with drug- and alcohol-related harm will be spelled out in a public lecture at the University of Cambridge tomorrow.

Ambitions project launched in Southwark

Simon Hughes MP joined 25 gifted and talented young people from the London Borough of Southwark at Pembroke House this week at the launch of Ambitions, a new five-year project designed to help Southwark’s young people make the most of their potential.

Stephen Hawking 70th Birthday Symposium

A capacity 550-strong audience gave a standing ovation at the end of a moving, amusing and wide-ranging autobiographical speech by Stephen Hawking on the occasion of his 70th birthday on Sunday.

International Relations student awarded MBE

A student on the Master of Studies in International Relations course, Damian Platt, has been awarded the MBE for his work in the favelas, or shantytowns, of Rio de Janeiro. Damian was given the award by HRH the Prince of Wales at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in December.