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Yearly Archives: 2013

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  • 6 Sep 2013
    Shaun Lovejoy

    Expect Macroweather

    What is the difference between weather and climate, and why are we beginning to see changes in both? Shaun Lovejoy has the answers.

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  • 5 Sep 2013
    Ioannis Ziogas

    Ovid Revealed: Fashion Tips from a Roman Master

    In an attempt to dismiss vain frivolity, many often sneer at the gaudy pretentiousness of the fashion world and its paraphernalia. Yet, those who are in the know know that fashion has little to do with the intentionally unrealistic realm of haute couture. Fashion is the art of making the artificial look natural. Ars latet arte sua or “skill is concealed by means of its own skill”, as the poet Ovid put it in his Metamorphoses.

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  • 4 Sep 2013
    DNA
    Colin Renfrew, Paul G. Bahn

    What does it mean to be human?

    What does it mean to be human? Professor Colin Renfrew and Dr Paul G. Bahn, editors of The Cambridge World Prehistory, look at how radiocarbon dating is affecting the future of our history.

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  • 3 Sep 2013
    Frances B.

    Hemingway’s Letters, Up Close and Personal

    Cambridge's publicity team visits The Hemingway Collection to see a handful of his famed letters.

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  • 30 Aug 2013
    Rachel E.

    The Stars This Summer

    With Summer Stargazing at its end, take a look at some of the latest entries in our astrophotography contest. There's still time to send in your photos before September 15!

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  • 29 Aug 2013
    Roulette Wheel. Photo: clry2 via CreativeCommons
    Robin Hesketh

    Genetic roulette in a new world

    Dr Robin Hesketh, author of Introduction to Cancer Biology, looks at the impact of genetic sequencing on finding a cure for leukaemia.

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  • 28 Aug 2013
    Bennett R.

    All The Tea In China

    The new third edition of Chinese Tea shares the ancient culture of Chinese tea, the trade, tradition, literature, philosophy, and ceremony associated with tea in China and its popularization around the world.

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  • 27 Aug 2013
    Marie C.

    Hemingway’s Childhood Home in Oak Park, Illinois

    Our library marketing associate traveled to Illinois, where she visited the birthplace and home of a young boy named Ernest Hemingway. To celebrate the upcoming release of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Vol. 2, she gives us an inside peek at the place where it all began.

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