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"Veio de openCulture uma notícia fascinante para todos os amantes da historia e da cultura: a Universidade de Cambridge, junto com outras instituições, já digitalizou e publicou na Internet as melhores obras da biblioteca de Charles Darwin, com um completo sistema de navegação para facilitar o estudo destes trabalhos."

"Universidade se une a instituições de renome internacional como Cambridge, Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) e Harvard na indicação de candidatos à premiação A Unicamp acaba de ser convidada para indicar os concorrentes ao Prêmio Nobel de Medicina ou Fisiologia de 2010. O convite, inédito, foi recebido por meio da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM) e coloca a Unicamp em pé de igualdade com instituições de ensino de renome internacional como Cambridge, Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) e Harvard que participaram, regularmente, da indicação de nomes nas diferentes áreas do conhecimento para o prêmio."

"A Última Ceia que, segundo a tradição cristã, Jesus Cristo compartilhou com seus 12 apóstolos na noite da Quinta-feira Santa, aconteceu, na realidade, numa quarta-feira, segundo afirma um especialista britânico em um livro publicado pela Universidade de Cambridge. "Descobri que a 'Última Ceia' aconteceu numa quarta-feira, dia 1º de abril do ano 33", declarou ao jornal "The Times" o professor Colin Humphreys, da Universidade de Cambridge."

"Um ladrão apelidado de "Tome Raider" (Caçador de Tomos), formado na Universidade Cambridge e que já roubou mais de 1 milhão de libras em livros raros ao longo de sua carreira criminal, foi condenado a três anos e meio de prisão por seu roubo mais recente."

The website of the British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP) makes available online the transcripts of the BDOHP interviews. The original material is conserved at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. "The BDOHP interviews former diplomats or other officials who have played a significant role in events bearing on international relations. The tendency towards greater openness in government has strengthened in recent years. Interviewees are encouraged by their interviewers to be candid and not to allow their instinctive respect for confidentiality to inhibit a frank description of what it is they have contributed to British diplomacy. They are however assured that what they say will not be published or put into the public domain without their permission or prior FCO clearance.

"Wordsworth changed forever the way we view the natural world and the inner world of feeling. He also connected the two indivisibly. We are his heirs, and we see and feel through him. His vision illumined our landscape. His name is inextricably connected with the Lake District, where he was born in Cockermouth in 1770. His mother died when he was only eight, his father five years later. These early losses gave him an acute apprehension of mortality, but did not impair the flow of his affections. His mother had loved him enough, and her love lasted beyond the grave. He had a free and happy country childhood, and joy is one of his themes: through his vocation as a poet he transformed fear of mortality to intimations of immortality. The story of his early life - his schooldays, his education at Cambridge, his wanderings in France, his response to the French revolution, his love of his sister Dorothy and his passionate friendship with Coleridge - are told in his great autobiographical work in blank verse, The Prelude, most of which written when he was in his 30s (only sections of it were published in his lifetime.) It is a work of astonishing originality, both in its subject matter (childhood and the growth of the mind, described with a pre-Freudian insight unprecedented in literature) and in its form. The verse is powerful, supple, subtle, freely flowing. Wordsworth revered both Shakespeare and Milton. His is the third great iambic voice in the English language. His first volume of poems, Lyrical Ballads, written in collaboration with Coleridge and published in 1798, stakes his territory: the plain, the rustic, the thoughtful, the everyday, the organic: a poetry in which "the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature". It includes The Idiot Boy, a moving ballad treating its challenging subject (a mother's love for her "idiot" son sent out into the night to fetch the doctor for a sick neighbour) with the deepest respect and

"A "dieta secreta" de Margaret Thatcher em 1979, ano em que chegou ao posto de premiê do Reino Unido, incluía uma dose reforçada de ovos, segundo anotações pessoais conservadas pela Universidade de Cambridge e que pela primeira vez vieram a público. Thatcher, que durante duas semanas seguiu rigorasamente a chamada "dieta da clínica Mayo", comia ovos de manhã, ao meio-dia e, às vezes, até à noite, consumindo um total de 28 ovos por semana, além de salada, espinafres e um pouco de carne. A dieta, que ela começou a seguir para perder cerca de dez quilos em duas semanas, permitia à primeira-dama tomar uísque, sua bebida preferida, nos dias em que não comesse carne."

"A internet celebra nesta segunda-feira os 25 anos do registro do primeiro nome de página terminado em ".com". No dia 15 de março de 1985, a fabricante de computadores Symbolics, de Cambridge, no Estado americano de Massachusetts, entrou para a história com o primeiro endereço de internet com o sufixo pontocom. "