Profile: Jessica Carbino, Tinder Sociologist
Jessica Carbino is everything you would expect a tinder sociologist to be: very American, confident, beautiful, and clearly extremely intelligent. She is kind enough to meet me in her the lobby of her...
View ArticleMeat-Free Mondays – Why so much beef?
You never know when history is about to happen. One minute, it’s a Sunday night JCR meeting. The next, war is near. The already tiny territory of Corpus Christi College, internationally recognised as...
View ArticleThe Return of RAG Blind Date
RAG Blind Date returns this week: having raised £3000 last year and had a significant beneficial impact on the charities RAG chose to support, its safe to say the event combines serving a hugely...
View ArticleThe View from Nepal
So my travels had begun. I got up at 5am in order to walk to the looking tower at Nagarkot for sunrise. However, the looking tower was further away than I had expected and so I arrived at about 7am,...
View ArticleOxhub Spotlight: Project Soup
Project Soup saw in 2nd week with a lot of crusty bread and yummy social action (did I mention the soup?). Over 80 students and Oxford residents came together in East Oxford Community Centre to share...
View ArticleShoes, Spirits and Sconcing on My Very First Crewdate
Of all of Oxford’s eccentric traditions, perhaps crewdates are the hardest to explain without prompting raised eyebrows and snorts of derision. On the surface they hardly seem unique – getting...
View Article3 Science-Fiction Technologies Which Could Become Reality
Science fiction is, in my wholly unqualified opinion, the best of the literary and screen genres. Its imaginative potential is limitless, providing a blank canvas onto which one can project all manner...
View ArticleHow to Eat a Chocolate Digestive and Other Biscuits
Ok, hold the fuck up, we need to talk about biscuits. The world’s troubles are paused for as long this takes you to read. How do you eat a chocolate digestive? Because apparently people do this in a...
View ArticleHarassed in their own house: violence against healthcare personnel
‘The physician amuses the patient while nature cures the disease’: French philosopher and historian Voltaire said this, though the current scenario is totally the opposite. Managing a patient is not at...
View ArticleWhat ‘X’ Changes Everything? Highlights From TEDxOxford
TEDxOxford has grown quickly over the years: what started as a hundred people in the Keble O’Reilly in 2011 has grown to 1800 this year, and has now graduated to the New Theatre. Chris Williams, the...
View ArticleInspiring the Dreaming Spires: The Power of Vlogging
‘I can’t think of any reason why someone would watch a vlog’, my dad asserted dismissively as I attempted to explain the premise of this article, ‘I just don’t get it’. Vlogging, it seems, is very much...
View ArticleWe need to start talking about suicide
Suicide – it’s the leading cause of death for young people aged between 20 and 34 in the UK. One person in the UK will take their own life at least every two hours, and globally that figure rises to...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Gäf’s indulgence impresses
We never found out what ‘Gäf’ means, and although it sounds like something out of an IKEA catalogue, this restaurant has real individuality. The interior is sleek and minimalistic without feeling...
View ArticleProfile: Hassan Elouhabi
Its 8 o’ clock on a Monday evening when I get the opportunity to speak to possibly one of the most prolific, important, and influential figures to the Oxford student community – Hassan Elouhabi, the...
View Article“everything i tweet is real”: The Age of Dril
“fuck “jokes”. everything i tweet is real. raw insight without the horse shit. no, i will NOT follow trolls. twitter dot com. i live for this” Such is the manifesto of the Twitter user known only as...
View ArticleMoo-ve over dairy: go egg-free this pancake day
Traditional pancakes are usually made with milk and egg, but it is surprisingly simple, quick, and significantly healthier to substitute a dairy-full recipe for dairy-free. Its also a great way to get...
View ArticleOxHub Spotlight: Looking good without feeling bad at the Formalwear Swap Shop
Tuesday of 4th week saw nearly 100 people show their support for the Oxford Hub by indulging their love for Oxford’s exclusive events. The Formalwear swap shop covered the hub in the intense colours of...
View ArticleClimate Change: We need scientific and sustainable solutions
‘Since my birth here I am living with floods, coping with cyclones and fighting with hunger – where should I go?’ Mr. Rokon Morol, a 35-year old fisherman, asked me this in April 2016, when I was...
View ArticleThe future of Facebook: Building global community
The inherent paradox in social media platforms such as Facebook is that they open up instantaneous communication on a global scale whilst insulating users ever more prohibitively within a social...
View ArticleIn theory, in practice: Defending the climate model
In his famous allegory of the cave Plato suggests that there are a group of people, prisoners, facing a wall, unable to direct their vision at anything else. Behind them lies reality, which has its...
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