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“It’s an Oxford Expression”: the Hard Science of Dank Memes

3rd December 2018 Jai Bolton

Photo credit: David Shankbone (Edited) Maymays, mems, meems. If you have spent some time on the internet in the last decade, then chances are you are aware of the everlasting trash fire that is meme culture. For any baby boomers uninitiated in this most noble of pursuits, memes are images and other media that are shared […]

Species: What are they, and how do they work?

15th April 20188th December 2018 James Ashworth

Image Credit: Hkandy How do you make a species? Ever since the publishing of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin in 1859, this is just one of the many debates that have been held around that most debateable of theories, evolution. Do the many varied niches of the natural world mean there are […]

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“It’s an Oxford Expression”: the Hard Science of Dank Memes

Species: What are they, and how do they work?

An Asian abroad in the French and Spanish world

Wake up climate skeptics: Your beer’s days are numbered

“Confusing and very difficult” – college suspension policies revealed

“I, too, am a human being”: on intimacy and memoir

An ‘uncomfortable tour’ of colonial Oxford

Music Faculty u-turns on finals change after student uproar

Labour MPs have a moral imperative to form a new centrist party

Climate change: the case for artificial intelligence

The government’s bungled handling of Nissan is shameful

Review of Blue Screen at the Glass Tank