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Review finds evidence of ‘fatal physical harm’ caused to boy who had surgery

Nine-year-old Jack Moate was operated on by Kuldeep Stohr at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge in 2015.

Evening Standard · Mar 5

What makes a city beautiful? Here’s what ratings of thousands of urban landscapes reveal

Some buildings leave such an impression when you visit them that they can be forever summoned to the mind’s eye. For us, these include the soaring dome of St Paul’s cathedral in London, the Georgian grandeur of Royal Crescent in Bath, and the ascending towers and pinnacles of King’s College…

The Conversation · Feb 26

Exclusive: Callosum, a startup looking to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI workloads, raises $10.25 million in new funding

Callosum, founded by two Cambridge-trained neuroscientists and inspired in part by the brain, has a system for optimizing workloads across different types of chips.

Fortune · Feb 26

Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man who had brain surgery

The individual was somewhere between 17 and 24 years old, with evidence indicating he may have had a hormone-related growth condition

The Independent UK · Feb 10

Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a 'giant' who'd had brain surgery

Archaeologists and student excavators uncovered a Viking Age pit full of dismembered remains near Cambridge, England.

LiveScience · Feb 9

Cambridge students on training dig help unearth possible execution pit

The burial pit contained the remains of 10 people based on the number of skulls, including at least one decapitation.

Evening Standard · Feb 4

Students unearth remains in possible execution pit on training dig

The discovery was made at Wandlebury Country Park near Cambridge

The Independent UK · Feb 4

Alex Astridge hopes to inspire younger generation representing UAE at Olympics

Astridge was born in Cambridge but moved to the UAE as a baby.

The Independent UK · Jan 27

Friday essay: weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

The Conversation · Jan 22

Secret love letter shows softer side of Cambridge spy ring’s alleged fifth man

Intimate correspondence between John Cairncross and Gloria Barraclough features in National Archives exhibition

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21