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'Extreme sleepover #20' – welcome to dataworld

31 Mar 2017

​Alexander Taylor provides a sensory snapshot of his fieldwork in high-security subterranean data centres exploring fears of technological failure in...

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'Extreme sleepover #19' – Living beside Uruguay’s ‘Mother Dump’

30 Sep 2016

In a new podcast, Patrick O’Hare describes his time with the clasificadores – the families who scavenge Montevideo’s pungent ‘wastescape’ to recover...

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'Extreme sleepover #18' – rebuilding earthquake-shattered Christchurch

22 Sep 2016

Kristen MacAskill describes how an earthquake in her hometown served to influence her career as an engineer.

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Cave painting, Isla de Mona

'Extreme sleepover #17' – going underground in search of zombies

04 Mar 2016

Lucy Wrapson reports on her fieldwork analysing the curious cave paintings found on Isla de Mona, in the Caribbean, and their equally enigmatic...

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'Extreme Sleepover #16' – the mystery of a damp bed and other tales

13 Oct 2015

Girija Godbole travels to a remote village in western India to understand the effects of the increasing incidence of land sale on a rural society...

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'Extreme sleepover #15' – keeping the lights on in rural Uganda

20 Mar 2015

Stephanie Hirmer travelled to Moyo in northern Uganda to ask which possessions the villagers most value and why. The results will be used to help...

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‘Extreme sleepover #14’ – all aboard the floating science factory

27 Jun 2014

Deep sea sediment cores – they’re cold, they’re muddy, and they’re revealing 30,000 years of climate history – as PhD student Julia Gottschalk...

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‘Extreme sleepover #13’ – the wet-nursing meerkats of the Kalahari

04 Jun 2014

Reporting back from her time spent in the Kalahari Desert, PhD student Kirsty MacLeod describes the fascinating life of a gang of meerkats that...

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Robin Irvine at the shrine on top of Shilin Bogd

'Extreme Sleepover #12’ – an equestrian adventure on the Mongolian steppes

02 Jan 2012

In the latest report of the Extreme Sleepover series, undergraduate Robin Irvine explains how a fascination for the relationships between humans...

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Peering into a moulin

'Extreme Sleepover #11’ - moulins and meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet

01 Jan 2012

In the eleventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, glaciologists Dr Ian Willis and Alison Banwell watch as a lake...

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Darvaza Gas Crater, later afternoon

'Extreme Sleepover #10’ - an encounter with ‘Hell’s Gate’

31 Dec 2011

In the tenth of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, PhD student Robert Hird pitches his tent next to a gas crater in...

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Waiting for the dinner fires to be lit

'Extreme Sleepover #9’ - waiting for sunrise in the Congo

30 Dec 2011

In the ninth of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, historian Catherine Porter visits the Democratic Republic of Congo to...

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