11 hours ago by Chris Armstrong

Though my friend Colin Duriez’s book Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship is no longer new, the interview I did with him when the book came out in 2003 is still fun to read. Whether you are a casual reader of these authors or an aficionado, Duriez’s books about them are packed [...]

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1 day ago by Leandra

By Michael Jackson On March 21, 2001, Michael Jackson went to Oxford University to promote the Heal the Kids initiative and introduce his Children’s Universal Bill of Rights. In light of all the healing that needs to happen in the world, I found this speech appropriate. For those in the process of p ...

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2 days ago by Aiza Mayabag

15th September – 5th December 2010 The newly renovated Ashmolean will inaugurate the major new exhibition programme with a show dedicated to The Pre-Raphaelites in four new exhibition galleries. Italy, its landscape, literature, art and history, was a central reference point for the movement known a ...

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2 days ago by Jennifer

Chemistry for Beginners by Anthony Strong Dr. Steven J. Fisher is an intelligent biochemist, working for Oxford University. His previous work with bonobo apes brought him to where he is today – studying the female orgasm in hopes of finding a cure for female sexual dysfunction. While Dr. Fisher is b ...

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4 days ago by nicnewman

Nicholas Newman 14 December 2009 The Christmas, New Year season is usually seen as a time of holidays for most Europeans. However, in recent years, this period has become notorious for the regular gas disputes between Russia and the Ukraine. Currently, 80% of Russian gas exports to Europe are delive ...

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4 days ago by spinoza1111

An Oxford Don who was Nude Was asked, “are you not rude?” But he said, bugger me, It’s for charity That eleemosynary Don who was nude! But when this Don who was Nude Was asked if he had Lewd Intentions by the above aspersion In which “bugger me” seemed rather more a reference to Catamite Perversion ...

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6 days ago by liverpoollrc

Author: Wally Bahny Many of us have dreamt of traveling to other planets. Whether it was as far away as Alpha Centauri or as close as Mars, we want to “Boldly Go” there. Now we can (and, no, I’m not referring to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo). NASA has created the Be A Martian site, where anyone ca ...

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7 days ago by PJ Trenton

I finally got a chance to watch the recent Designing Worlds episode featuring Frideswide, a recreation of a portion of the Western Front in WWI using the materials of Oxford University's First World War Poetry Digital Archive. This is without doubt, one of the best installations I have ever come acr ...

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7 days ago by Isa GT

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7 days ago by MoonNerd

In the wake of the Obama Administration’s unveiling of its “Educate to Innovate” campaign to revitalize education in the U.S., Mangahigh (www.mangahigh.com) today launches the first curriculum-focused, games-based learning site in the U.S. focusing on math for 11 to 16 year olds. The company also an ...

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