How risky is your breakfast?
27 October 2012Understanding how the numbers add up in relation to risk can help us deal with our own uncertainty, as David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the...
Are we being sold online?
27 October 2012A panel discussion for the Festival of Ideas examines whether social media giants are profiting from our willingness to share the most intimate details of...
The making of a National Risk Register
26 October 2012Why does Britain need a National Risk Register (NRR)? To understand what the risks are and how to improve resilience, explains John Tesh, the Cabinet...
Packed weekend at the Festival of Ideas
26 October 2012Fancy listening to children's authors like Lauren Child talk about their writing or taking part in a circus skills workshop or doing a bit of...
Look into my eyes: Lauren Child at the Festival of Ideas
26 October 2012Lauren Child – best-selling children’s author and creator of Clarice Bean, Charlie and Lola, and now Ruby Redfort – will be in conversation with Morag...
Finding higher meaning at the Festival of Ideas
26 October 2012Christianity, Buddhism, and the Baha’i Faith will come together for the first time in Cambridge on Friday 26 October as part of this year’s Festival...
Your chance to ‘scream in space’ using smartphone technology
25 October 2012Cambridge students will be loading human screams onto a smartphone that will be blasted into outer space later this year. The public are invited to...
Festival of Ideas explores a 'colossus of physics, philosophy and mathematics'
25 October 2012A University of Cambridge academic is to describe how the insights of a great nineteenth century French mathematician and theoretical physicist transformed our ideas about...
The art of sitting comfortably
25 October 2012One of the most influential designers of the 20th century, who turned furniture into works of art to support the human form, is being celebrated...
Trade-offs highlighted at UN conference on biodiversity
24 October 2012Prioritising social and economic objectives alongside environmental concerns is crucial in forest management, says Cambridge researcher at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.