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Black Town & Gown film premieres at Cambridge Festival
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is co-directing a documentary film on the historical legacy of Black presence in Cambridge which will premiere at the Cambridge Festival at the end of the month. Seetha Tan [2022], who is doing a PhD in Sociology, is co-directing the Black Town & Gown film, which will be shown on 28th […]
The huge economic impact of inaction on climate change
There is a strong economic case for investing in climate mitigation and adaptation because there are significant economic consequences of failing to do so, according to a new report. The report says that allowing global warming to reach 3°C by 2100 could reduce cumulative economic output by 15% to 34%. Alternatively, investing 1% to 2% […]
Litigating the climate emergency
Naina Agrawal-Hardin is interested in how climate change is being litigated around the world and in global reactions to climate change projections. Beginning this autumn, she will do an MPhil in the relatively new subject of Anthropocene Studies, with a focus on how climate change projections have historically been received by a wide range of […]
Why health is a human right
The US provides a third of global development assistance for fighting disease and preventing pandemics and three quarters of the global AIDS budget. Overnight that aid has been halted with devastating effects for the whole world, the head of UNAIDS said last night. Giving the 2025 Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture at Pembroke College last night […]
Exploring the ideological brain
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is launching her ‘startingly original’ book on political neuroscience with an appearance at two major festivals and a workshop at Bill Gates Sr. House. Leor Zmigrod’s book, The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds, is published on 20th March by Viking. It is described by the psychologist and psycholinguist […]
