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The next Covid-19: why future pandemics are ‘a certainty’
Thursday October 10 2024, 10:00am. Prof Sir Chris Whitty has warned a future pandemic as big as Covid is “a certainty”. Given the widespread and devastating health, social and economic impacts of Covid, it is important that scientists have a detailed understanding of possible future threats. The World Health Organisation publishes an ...
Behind the Tompkins Table: A look into Christ’s academic success
2023年8月6日 · The 2022 Tripos saw a stunning 45.7% of Christ’s undergraduates achieve first-class results, significantly higher than the University average of 29.9%. The College also far surpasses its closest competitors, St Catharine’s and Trinity, at which 38.5% and 37.9% of students were awarded a First, respectively.
Cambridge ranked fifth in The Times World University Rankings
Friday October 11 2024, 9:04pm. The University of Cambridge has been ranked fifth in the world in the Times World University Rankings for the second year running. The University was once again beaten by Oxford, who have taken first place for the last nine years. Oxford was followed by MIT, Harvard, and Princeton which took the second, third ...
Music, miniskirts and motorbikes: ‘60s mod culture | Varsity
2020年11月13日 · Music, miniskirts and motorbikes: ‘60s mod culture. Fashion Editor Lara Zand maps the mass appeal of mod culture, which epitomised the Swinging Sixties in Britain and saw fashion, music and art intersect. Twiggy, posing in a jersey dress, coloured tights and brogues, has come to be the face of women’s fashion in the 1960s.
‘Talkin’ Bout a Revolution’: The Music of Tracy Chapman
2020年12月29日 · Tracy Chapman was introduced on the Late Night Show on the 2nd November as ‘Grammy award winning singer/ songwriter known for her singular voice as well as for her politically and socially active music’. Little more needed saying as the camera cut to a shot of Chapman singing “Talkin’ ’Bout a Revolution”, a song she originally wrote ...
The Cure’s comeback: ‘Alone’ offers cautious optimism | Varsity
2024年10月13日 · After years of teasers, snippets, lyric samples, and live performances, The Cure has finally released ‘Alone,’ their first single since 2008. It serves as the lead single for their 14th album, Songs of a Lost World, set to drop on November 1st. This single gives us our first major insight into whether this LP will be a sad, final attempt at ...
Georgia Ellery: ‘Pushing our creative minds to get somewhere …
2020年5月29日 · Georgia Ellery: ‘Pushing our creative minds to get somewhere unheard is where the joy is’. The young actor/musician tells Izzi Dickson about her BAFTA-winning acting debut, upcoming Jockstrap EP and love of drone metal. Georgia Ellery. When I catch up with Georgia, it’s 2pm on a Friday and she’s in Farringdon, where she lives with her ...
David Hockney exhibition to open at the Fitzwilliam | Varsity
2022年3月6日 · The Fitzwilliam museum and the Heong Gallery at Downing are hosting an exhibition of David Hockney’s work from March 15th to August 29th. The exhibition, Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction, is the first exhibition to “give serious scholarly scrutiny to Hockney’s ideas as well as his art.” Featuring some works of Hockney that have never been exhibited publicly, such as ...
Lungs: a play about the Big Questions but without answers
Friday February 5 2021, 12:00am. ‘Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.’. This comic observation is typical of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, a dazzling and affecting – if somewhat frustrating – play, in which an unnamed man and woman negotiate starting a family in a ...