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It’s Fifth Week at Oxford, and a Valentine’s Day-inspired gloom has settled over the city. Seeking to relieve the community of the blues, a team of Oxford and Stanford students is working hard to launch a humorous dating event: with the help of a questionnaire and an algorithm, we reckon that every participant in the […]
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Anisha Faruk, former co-chair of the Oxford University Labour Club, has clinched victory in a tough election for President of the Oxford SU. The results were announced at an event at the Weston Library, and show significant victories for Faruk’s Impact: Oxford slate. The presidential election went through three rounds of preferential voting. RON was […]
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Cellar, one of Oxford’s most popular music venues, has taken an important step to securing its future. The venue won permission from Oxford County Council to build a new fire escape further along Cornmarket Street, thereby meeting all the its legal obligations. The club had previously been under threat as safety inspectors found its fire […]
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Image credit: Cmglee. Description: the Westminster School, London, the students of which get 70-80 Oxbridge places per year. Eight top schools have as many Oxbridge admissions as the next 2894 UK schools combined, according to a new report by the Sutton Trust. The Trust suggests that little has changed regarding access to opportunity at Oxbridge […]
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Image Credit: Ella McPherson I don’t like mushrooms. They have no taste, a strange texture and an odd smell. However, that is not to say that I do not find fungi interesting. Fungi are a group of organisms that are more closely related to animals than plants, yet they’re often treated much the same. Unlike other […]
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Plush is to move into the Oxford Union’s cellar which has hosted Purple Turtle for twenty years. The move is expected to take place in January 2019. The Oxford Union announced Monday 8th week that “Plush have accepted a long-term lease on Frewin Court, and we look forward to welcoming them. The club was founded […]
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Picture credit: Sir George Holmes An Anglo-Bulgarian team of scientists have found the world’s oldest intact shipwreck. The remarkable discovery is situated under the Black Sea, 80km off the city of Burgas, Bulgaria. Estimated to be around 2,400 years old, it is thought to resemble an ancient Greek merchant ship. At 23 metres long, and decorated […]
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Picture Credit: FreeCliparts The book revolves around the differences between animate and inanimate matter, and why organisms are so unique in relation to the environment that they live in. Throughout the book, Pross emphasises our ignorance towards the biological sciences, even going as far as comparing it to humanity’s understanding of physics before the 20th […]
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Photo Credit: Stefan Leijon (CC BY-ND 2.0) Plastic. It is a major part of all of our lives from disposable cups to plastic pens and from phone covers to takeaway boxes. Whilst you may think you know the story of our current plastic times, it is highly likely that you have underestimated the scale of the […]
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Photo credit: idaCOM We all know that prevention is better than the cure of illnesses such as heart disease, Type II diabetes, and the flu, but what about illnesses of the mind? Multiple studies have shown that maintaining good general mental health and intervening before symptoms become serious can vastly improve the outcomes of such episodes. […]
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Picture credit: athree23 The first Mad Cow disease case, since 2015 has been identified and confirmed by the Scottish government on Thursday, 25th October, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is generally agreed that Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) as Mad Cow Disease is officially known, is caused by prions. These are modified versions of naturally occurring proteins whose […]
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Photo credit: M. GardeFerdinand (CC BY-SA 3.0) We all know how AMHs (Anatomically Modern Humans) evolved, right? We have all seen the picture… A string of small, hunched over, knuckle dragging monkeys gradually stood more upright until they blossomed into the magnificent specimens that one might see standing behind the counter at any McDonalds in the […]
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On October 27th, from 8 to 11 pm, something wunderbar is happening: the German Society are hosting an Oktoberfest celebration. For those of you unfamiliar with this Bavarian bacchanalia, it began as a celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig in 1810, before quickly degenerating into an annual celebration of beer in Munich, beginning […]
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Germany’s vibrant capital city was my home for six months this year. A city with its finger on every pulse, Berlin hovers on the cutting edge of contemporary culture – the art, music, theatre and food scenes are spectacular. Whilst in winter Berlin is home to candle-lit bars and Christmas markets, in summer the city […]
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The infamous capsule hotel. Everyone’s heard of those little pods into which people cram themselves in an effort to save space and money. I too was one of those people on a recent trip to Japan, curious about what exactly a ‘capsule hotel’ entailed. I imagined rows upon rows of capsules packing the building, and […]
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‘Well did he know the taverns in every town, and every hosteller and bar-maid, far better than he knew any leper or beggar’ – ‘The Friar’s Tale’ It was whilst contemplating how little I had explored Oxford that I had the highly original idea to not just go to one pub, but several, in the […]
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The release of the new Captain Marvel trailer fills me with hope for the future of Marvel’s cinematic universe. For all its epic scope and breath-taking action scenes, Avengers: Infinity War still revolved almost entirely around male characters, their actions, their plains, and their desires. There were maybe two or three moments in the film […]
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It feels inappropriate to refer to Winnie-the-Pooh as a franchise, as though it would sully the precious world found in A A Milne’s classic childhood novels. Nevertheless, as this summer saw the release of yet another film returning to the Hundred Acre Wood, Disney’s Christopher Robin proves that the well of Pooh-related stories has not […]
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As we prepare to watch Tom Hardy graduate from Bane’s venom-inhaling mask in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) to a full-scale parasite in Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming Venom (2018), let’s consider the importance of the mask outside the horror and conventional superhero genre. Despite these stereotypes, this favourite form of disguise has made significant appearances in […]
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