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Contents
CAM Cambridge Alumni Magazine Issue 75 Easter Term 2015
Marcus Ginns
Regulars Letters Don’s diary Update Diary My room, your room The best ...
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Extracurricular 02 03 04 08
University matters Reading list Cambridge soundtrack 10 A sporting life 11 Prize crossword
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Features
Marcus Ginns
Peter Quinnell
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The turning tide
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What prompts a society to change its mind on the big issues, to make the previously unacceptable the norm? CAM asks five leading academics to consider the question.
This house
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The Cambridge Union Society is celebrating its 200th birthday. We investigate a long – and sometimes dramatic – history.
Bubble vision
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We all know that the rational consumer is a fiction. So what does drive our economic behaviour? Dr Benedetto De Martino says the answer lies in our theory of mind.
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Phantom evidence
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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle addressed the John Ray Society in the Michaelmas Term of 1926, he had science on his mind. The science of spirits.
Naked lunch
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Home movies offer fascinating insights into the lives of those in front of, and behind, the camera, particularly if it’s rare footage of a 1935 Raj picnic in the hills of Allahabad.
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