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I Wanna Be a Harvard Girl!

Rebecca Root | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
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Rebecca Root

The campus itself was regal, pretty and pristine. Every intricate archway and stone step possessed years of American history. As a typical geek, Harvard fascinated me with its traditions, rituals and stories.

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Niall Ferguson Apologises For Anti-Gay Comments

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Niall Ferguson Apology, UK News, Harvard, John Maynard Keynes, Economics, Niall Ferguson, UK News

Niall Ferguson has apologised "unreservedly" for saying John Maynard Keynes didn't care about future generations because he was gay. The Harvard hi...

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WATCH: 'RoboBee' Is The World's Smallest Flying Robot

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 03.05.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Flying Robots, Robot Insects, Robotics, UK News, Harvard, Robots, Robobee, UK Tech News

Yesterday we brought you the robotic bird so realistic it got attack by an actual hawk. Today we bring you something even cooler - and far, far sma...

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'Exploding' Robot Can Jump 30 Times Its Own Height

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 13.04.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Robotics, Soft Robot, Harvard, UK News, Jumping Robot, Robot, Video, UK Tech News

Scientists have developed a robot which can jump 30 times its own height. Harvard University's 'Soft' robot concept is a three-legged, silicone-bas...

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It's Not Felix Baumgartner But ...

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.11.2012 | UK Comedy
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Felix Baumgartner captivated the world when he jumped from the edge of space last month. Filling those space shoes and performing anything near as ...

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Proof of Heaven? What, Here and Now? Why Not!

Tony Lobl | Posted 31.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Books, Science, Harvard, Perception, Afterlife, Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Religion, God, Consciousness, Brain, Jesus Christ, Health, Jesus, Coma, Heaven, Ebooks, Proof of Heaven, Dr Eben Alexander, Icu Psychosis, Hallucinations, UK Lifestyle News
Tony Lobl

Dr. Eben Alexander - who has worked at some of the most prestigious US medical institutions - has spoken of the need for a different "picture of reality" after he nearly died during a seven-day coma. His book "Proof of Heaven" has just been published.

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World's First 'Cyborg Skin' Built By Scientists

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 28.10.2012 | UK Tech
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'Cyborg skin' with embedded electronics has been built in a Harvard lab for the first time. The breakthrough marks the first test were functional e...

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Bio Engineers Take Apart A Rat To Build Artificial Jellyfish

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 22.09.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Jellyfish, Video, Rat, UK News, Nature, Bioengineering, Medusoid, Harvard, Caltech, Drugs Testing, Artificial Life, UK Tech News

Bioengineers have taken apart a rat and built a jellyfish. The synthetic animal - called a medusoid - was put together with silicone and muscle cel...

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Harvard Goes Viral: Free Courses To 'Anyone With An Internet Connection'

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 21.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Social Mobility, Video, US Education, UK World, UK Tech, Harvard, Online Education, Students, Mit, Universities, UK Universities & Education News

One of the America’s most prestigious universities is offering free online courses to anyone in the world, providing they have an Internet connectio...

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Do You Think Lady Gaga is Changing the Face of Celebrity Culture?

Sreedhar Pillai | Posted 11.05.2012 | Home
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Sreedhar Pillai

Lady Gaga deserves to be applauded to be the one to show the way by putting her clout on the social web to promote her profession and a good cause.

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Gaga's Born This Way Foundation: Are We Born To be Brave?

Stephen Carrick-Davies | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Cynthia Germanotta, Harvard, Anti-Bullying, Online Bullying, Cyberbullying, Lady GaGa, Harvard Business School, Pop Stars, Born This Way, Foundations, UK Impact, UK Tech, Btwf, UK Tech News
Stephen Carrick-Davies

Lady Gaga is now initiating a movement committed to inspiring youth to love more, to be brave and stand up for others, and resist the urge to engage in the casual cruelty and meanness so often expressed in the digital world. This was more than a sermon; this was becoming a rallying cry.

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God and the American Elections

Sir Christopher Meyer | Posted 09.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Mitt Romney, Special Relationship, Harvard, Obama, Sir Christopher Meyer, British Culture, America, American Culture, UK Politics News
Sir Christopher Meyer

Politics provides one of the most vivid and telling measures of how wide the Atlantic really is. It is not just that the point of gravity in America is so much further to the right, such that David Cameron would be considered by many Americans as 'socialistic' just for his support of the National Health Service. It is that ideas and beliefs that would be thought daft in Britain are part of mainstream discourse in the US.

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Cambridge University Ranked Best In The World

Lucy Sherriff | Posted 11.09.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Education, QS Survey, Cambridge University Ranked Top, Harvard, Students, Top World Universities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Yale, UK Universities & Education News

Cambridge has been crowned the best university in the world for the second year running. The leading university beat Yale, Oxford, and other elite ...

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