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Welcome to Editor’s Pidge, the personal pigeonhole of OxStu’s editors. Here, we accept all your comments and concerns about our articles over the course of the week and offer our reply. This week, we have an interesting reflection on a recent Pink article as well as … As always, please do get in touch to […]
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Image description: a phone with the Twitter app open on its screen lying on top of a box labelled “HANDLE WITH CARE” There was a period of a few days in early January when huge civil unrest was not only possible, but likely. A base of millions of Americans across the country stood convinced that […]
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Image description: A letter with the oxstu logo being placed into a pigeon hole. By this point, it would probably be redundant to talk about how different term, and by extension OxStu, is going to be this Hilary. Instead, I want to let you all know about what I’m personally most excited for over the […]
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Image Description: The Screenslaver from ‘Incredibles 2’ In the crippling economic maelstrom whipped up by the pandemic, businesses either float or sink. There are also those titans who have triumphed from the distillation in the wealth of the largest companies. Amazon, the biggest company in the world, and the biggest winner in the pandemic have […]
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Applications to join the Editorial team of the Oxford Student are now open. All applications consist of a written application and following this you may be called to an interview with the new Editors in Chief for Hilary Term, 2021, Robert and Issy. News Team applicants may also be required to send in an example […]
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After years in the pipeline, the Ariel space telescope has been given the go-ahead for launch in 2029. This spacecraft is the brainchild of a cooperative European endeavour to map the atmospheres and chemical environments of far-flung worlds. If all goes well, Ariel will bring planetary science out of the solar system, and into uncharted […]
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Trick question, it is neither. The world of transportation has already seen the rise and rapid fall of the steam locomotive and, as we look set to enter into a new era of travel, Hyperloop employs anything but traditional traction…we are talking magnetic levitation. When news broke last week that Virgin Hyperloop had become the […]
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As scientists, we constantly engage in outreach to make science more accessible. We understand not everyone has someone close by to explain why we care about DNA, chemical bonds or the intricacies of neutron stars. However, it’s easy to forget the process of research is often still as mysterious to the public as the science […]
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Fake news is nothing new – there have always been flat earthers, anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, fake news can turn from something we meme and joke about to something that tangibly harms people’s lives. There are three main pernicious impacts of fake news – a) it can spread disinformation […]
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When Trump’s 2016 MAGA campaign promised to make America a global leader, we didn’t quite expect it to include its number of Covid-19 cases. Yet, here we are. The hot garbage that constitutes the White House’s pandemic management has so far resulted in 7.8 million confirmed cases and 217 thousand deaths, representing approximately 20 percent […]
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Image description: A robot on a blue background. Few scientific concepts have captured the public imagination as artificial intelligence has. The phrase often evokes images of a distant future in which humanoid robots are capable of working work alongside—or against—humans. But the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in our day-to-day lives is not as far […]
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The University of Oxford’s ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 is the world-leading vaccine candidate, according to the Chief Scientist of the World Health Organisation. Phase 1 trial results released earlier today suggest that the vaccine is “safe, tolerated and immunogenic”. It may also offer “double protection” against the deadly virus. The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneza is helping developing […]
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Term may not quite have been what we all expected, but the OxStu is busier than ever! If you want to be part of Oxford’s largest and most inclusive student paper, apply with one or more of the links below: News and Broadcast Team Application Editorial Team Application Columnists Application Illustrators and Designers Application News: […]
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These are troubling times for America. With a pivotal presidential election looming and the current momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement, the country is in turmoil as politics takes control. Every day, videos of police brutality and racism are shared onto the social media sites that have become the main source of information for […]
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So, here we are – we made it – 2020, the age of robots and flying cars, a pandemic and unprecedented times. Automation is one of the many buzzwords of today (much like buzzword which is itself a buzzword); but what does it mean and how do we tackle this global issue? Will the ‘Rise of […]
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There are over two billion keyboards in the world. They are one of the most used objects in daily life. Yet the trillions of words written every day are largely conveyed through dull, black, plastic varieties that proliferate offices everywhere. The average person will spend five years of their life typing – more than they […]
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Across the globe, scientists are working tirelessly to produce a COVID-19 vaccine, with over 100 potential candidates in development. A successful vaccine could prevent millions of deaths worldwide and allow devastated economies to begin the road to recovery. But with an estimated minimum timeline of 18 months, is it possible that a vaccine will be […]
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There is no doubt that technology has stepped in to attempt to fill the many voids in our lives created by the Lockdown restrictions. From education to socialising to entertainment, we all rely on technology now more than ever to allow us to continue with our daily activities. One of the most obvious ways in […]
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Image description: Russian dolls illustrating social distancing “It seems like a pretty standard interview question”, I thought to myself. Back in 2017, I was preparing for my Oxford interview by taking part in mock ‘Oxbridge-style’ interviews organised between a group of Bristol schools. Testing my ability to apply maths in a real-world context, the interviewer […]
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