Cambridge Ideas Podcast
1) Gaia's mission: solving the celestial puzzle
A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and the universe beyond. On 19th December 2013, a r...Show More
2) Darwin's Women
The Darwin Correspondence Project is researching Charles Darwin's letters and has so far located more than 15,000 he either sent or received. The full texts of these are being published in The Corres...Show More
3) Cambridge Ideas - The future of energy?
Today, we consume a truly vast amount of energy - with demand continuing to skyrocket at an alarming rate. We know that producing this energy has significant environmental impacts and emitting so much...Show More
4) Cambridge Ideas - Memories Of Old Awake
Dr Emily Lethbridge, a Cambridge University academic, is exploring the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Ăslendingasögur) during a unique year-long research trip. Emily is discovering that the sagas ...Show More
5) Cambridge Ideas - Don't Eat the Plants
Are plants as defenceless as they appear? See the world how the plants do, as Professor John Parker, explores how plants â the âgreat scientists of the animal kingdomâ â have evolved strategies to def...Show More
6) Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?
Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising conclusions about the way forward. The film is bas...Show More
7) Cambridge Ideas - Sticky Feet
Ants have incredibly sticky feet. With them they can hang onto ceilings, while carrying 100 times their body weight. But if they are stuck down so successfully - how do they ever get them unstuck?? Ch...Show More
8) Cambridge Ideas - The Perfect Crew?
Striving for, and achieving, high performance in teams has become a major business imperative. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research with the Cambridge University Boat Club, this film examines...Show More
9) Cambridge Ideas - Strange Seas of Thought
A journey into Wordsworth's mind and the process of creation. We know about the experiments that have led to great scientific discoveries is widely recognised. But how much do we understand about the ...Show More
10) Cambridge Ideas - Vanishing Voices
Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century. Dr Mark Turin, director of the World Oral Literature Project, has spent much of his life travelling to r...Show More