#Privacy: the personal, the public and the culture of oversharing
The threshold between being open and oversharing is one we spend our whole lives navigating. In nursery toilet training boasts might get you a sticker, but by Reception no one wants to hear it. Your...
View ArticleChristy Lee Rogers’ ‘Reckless Unbound’ – An Unending Journey in Human Experience
Magic evoked through blurring history and modernity, fantasy and reality, the familiar and the unknown.
View Article“Mummy, I made the grades!” but next: ten lies you have been told about Oxford
After feeling disgustingly smug about meeting your offer and engaging in all manner of dissolute debauchery to celebrate clamping that elusive A*, the cold light of day finally sets in, and, with it,...
View ArticleWhat to Expect When You’re Oxpecting
Freshlings, put down that copy of Brideshead for a minute. Go on- back on the bookshelf, next to your Aloysius replica teddy- there we go. You’re excited to the point of incontinence about rocking up...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins and the sinking ship of New Atheism
It was pleasing to read Owen Jones’ recent article in The Independent, denouncing, from an atheist’s perspective, Richard Dawkins’ hostility towards religion (albeit almost entirely confined to his...
View ArticleDanger Tourism in the DMZ
It may be a stone’s throw from the most volatile regime in the world, but the Korean Demilitarized Zone is as tourist-friendly as any Lonely Planet must-see. Following the Second World War and the...
View ArticleLatest cutting edge technologies being developed by Oxford researchers at...
Meet Lisa. This is the latest big thing in the world of autonomously driven vehicles. Being currently developed by Prof. Paul Newman ( Department of Engineering) and his research team at Begbroke...
View ArticleA boost for research in “Great Technologies” for Oxford University
The research in robotics and autonomous systems carried out in Oxford University has been recognised as the university receives short of £8 million for 2 of its own projects and one project where...
View ArticleThe Fringe demonstrates how art can teach us about the human condition
The Edinburgh Fringe, ironically enough for an event meant to be a companion to the original Edinburgh International Festival, is now the world’s largest arts festival. With nearly 3000 shows to choose...
View ArticleAgony Lad on the EDL
If you’re the sort of slack-jawed helmet who visits The OxStu website in the holidays, presumably as a break between marathon wank sessions, you’ll know that recently some scatter-brained cock-juggler...
View ArticleDear Oxford Human
There is a writer who lives in New York called Jeff Ragsdale, and he is in some way responsible for the hundreds of anonymous letters circulating Oxford this week. In 2012 he wrote the book that he is...
View ArticleCliterary Theory: BDSM Consent
Talking about sex can be an incredibly frustrating experience. I realised this the other week, when I was telling a friend how turned on I am by boys who are really good at consent. I was trying to...
View ArticleThe transformation of Harley Quinn
When Harley Quinn first appeared in 1992 in Batman: The Animated Series, it was as little more than a walk on part. Now over twenty years later she is amongst the most beloved of the DC characters, set...
View ArticleI’ve got Seoul but I’m not a soldier (Part Two)
I expected at some point while in S. Korea to experience some kind of hostile attitude towards the North, but to my surprise this was replaced by xenophobia expressed towards the Japanese. It...
View ArticleDRC: The forgotten warzone
For those who aren’t familiar with the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is not a happy one. It was ‘discovered’ in 1482 by the Portuguese explorer Diego Cao, who found there one of the...
View ArticleThe ultimate guide to the most important meal of the day
Proverbial wisdom is a funny thing – for all its hackneyed unoriginality, it has that je ne sais quoi to incentivise behaviour from even the most headstrong teenager. Rather than screeching “wakey...
View ArticleF. Scott Bitchgerald drinks among hard-drinking people
A queue of cocktail dresses and three piece suits snake their way around Camera, shivering in the early Hilary term cold. Huddling together for warmth, girls in French Connection miniskirts narrow...
View ArticleCliterary Theory: the problem with Cosmopolitan magazine
Ah, Cosmopolitan. The world may know it as Cosmo, but I prefer to keep things formal with this distinguished publication. It’s got gravitas, after all. This month, it’s been busy promoting female...
View ArticleFrom bleak to chic
With fifth week blues imminent, a Spartan room can only serve to amplify the crushing emptiness of your own soul. Faulty feng shui is always dispiriting, but in order to prevent going postal, it’s...
View ArticlePerspective and privilege outside the bubble
You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. There’s one of those sentimental platitudes that has been beaten, battered and mangled into more than its fair share of love songs, memoirs and all other...
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