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A screengrab of Barack Obama's typical Facebook fan from LikeAudience.

With friends like these…

22 Apr 2011

Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to...

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Leigong's Handbook c. 1590s

Chinese food for thought

31 Mar 2011

Chinese food contains a hidden recipe for living, a new analysis reveals.

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Margaret Thatcher's handwritten notes of her famous 'not for turning' speech

Thatcher Archive opens personal papers for 1980

21 Mar 2011

Economic hardship, rising unemployment and a country hit hard by recession; parallels between today and 1980 are revealed in the archive papers of...

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Voters at the southern Sudan referendum

Research on the front line

11 Mar 2011

An ambitious project with global reach seeks to address the most difficult and persistent internal conflicts – struggles for ethnic identity and...

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European Parliament Brussels

Fair representation in Europe?

11 Mar 2011

Until now, seats in the European Parliament have been allocated by political bargaining. A fairer way has been devised by an international panel of...

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World Health Assembly - Panel on H1N1

New kids on the block

08 Jul 2010

The negotiating styles of the world’s biggest rising powers – China, India and Brazil – could offer important clues about any future challenge they...

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UN Geneva

When the talking stops

22 Jun 2010

From the collapse of the Doha Development Agenda to the ongoing impasse over climate change, the failure of governments to achieve real progress at...

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Chicago Skyline

An American Tale

31 May 2010

David Reynolds' attempt to tell the history of America in 90 episodes in the landmark Radio 4 series, "America, Empire Of Liberty" set Cambridge's...

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Democracy

Power to the people?

26 May 2010

Greece was the birthplace of democracy, but our own political system would be unrecognisable to voters in Ancient Athens. As Classicist Paul...

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Free TV Texture

Watching religiously

20 May 2010

A new survey of the boom in religious broadcasting in the Middle East reveals how the small screen is becoming an increasingly important battlefield...

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1984 Port Talbot Miners Strike

Brave New World?

17 Sep 2009

British trade unionism was not undermined by Margaret Thatcher, but by the dawn of a new, brutally competitive age that weakened it dramatically in...

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look of innocence

Muslim women face two-fronted struggle for equality

28 Jan 2009

European Muslim women are proud to live in and belong to Europe, despite facing a daily struggle against prejudice from both within and outside their...

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