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#Compline
- Lent 3
From St John the Evangelist, Hills Road, Cambridge, with Cambridge University Schola Cantorum.
Relisten now 👇
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Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin
and qualified him to work as a naturalist on HMS Beagle
have been unearthed from an archive in Cambridge
and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany.
The fragile specimens, ink drawings and watercolour illustrations of plants belonged to
Darwin’s teacher and mentor,
Prof John Stevens Henslow,
and have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium…

🍰 How expectations about artificial sweeteners may affect their taste
#sweet

How expectations about artificial sweeteners may affect their taste
Elena Mainetto, from Radboud University, Margaret Westwater, from the University of Oxford, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge explored whether they could change how much people enjoy beverages containing sugar or artificial sweeteners by manipulating previous expectations about the drinks. The work is published in JNeurosci.

i read that “the reg-nr: attribute adds official company registration numbers to organisation objects maintained by the RIPE NCC. This helps clearly identify organisations, especially when names are similar or identical”
which reminds me of the time cambridge university had to provide registration documents to ripe
it’s a charity, but as a special case it isn’t a registered charity
it has a royal charter, but as a special case it isn’t on the privy council’s list
in t…

Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, founded in 1732, is certified by Guinness to be the oldest, continually running book store in the world.
A quick search reveals: Osiander, founded 1596 in Tübingen. Korn und Berg 1531 in Nürnberg. Beck'sche in Vienna 1724 (but closed since 2018?), Höllrigl 1598 in Salzburg, Orell Füssli 1519 in Zürich, Cambridge University Press (and store?) 1534.
Now some of these started as print shops, but often also sold books. Anyone know a text discussing Gu…

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Cambridge University Schola Cantorum & Graham Walker:
🎵 Psalm 91 vv1-12 (Plainsong)
#CambridgeUniversityScholaCantorum #GrahamWalker

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Cambridge University Schola Cantorum & Graham Walker:
🎵 O Christ who are both light and day (Plainsong)
#CambridgeUniversityScholaCantorum #GrahamWalker

"I suspect the only way to fight the risks of AI is to use more AI to try and monitor what is going on."
- Gillian Tett; Provost, King's College, Cambridge University.
You mean, "throw Good AI after Bad AI"? 🙄
#stupid #opinion #RealTime #BillMaher #AI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Compline
Cambridge University Schola Cantorum & Graham Walker:
🎵 Into thy hands, O Lord (Plainsong)
#CambridgeUniversityScholaCantorum #GrahamWalker
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Amy Beach, Cambridge University Schola Cantorum & Graham Walker:
🎵 Peace I leave with you
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Amy Summers, Cambridge University Schola Cantorum & Graham Walker:
🎵 Nunc dimittis
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Nikolay Golovanov, Cambridge University Schola Cantorum & Graham Walker:
🎵 Otche nash
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Vasily Kalinnikov, Cambridge University Schola Cantorum & Graham Walker:
🎵 Bogoroditse devo
#VasilyKalinnikov #CambridgeUniversityScholaCantorum #GrahamWalker