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Is Reading Still Relevant? 

“At a university built on reading, in an age where machines can do it for us, do we still believe reading matters?” Ngoc Diep (Alice) explores the impact of AI on our academic approach, questioning whether reading has lost its relevancy. Image by Vincenzo Malagoli via Pexels

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The Peace Dividend is over

“There is no help on the way. No one is going to save us this time. There is no arsenal of democracy across some vast sea, ready and waiting to rush Europe’s defence as the United States did in 1917 and 1941.  Europe is alone. It must prepare for the worst.” Arun Lewis discusses how…

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The Inability to Read for Leisure Disease

“I miss the way books used to feel. The weight of a novel in my hand on a rainy Sunday. The joy of finishing a sentence and rereading it just for the pleasure of the cadence. I miss the companionship of characters I used to meet between pages. So I’ve decided, I want that part…

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Global Affairs

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Amman: The Sound of Air-Raid Sirens

“Air-raid sirens wailed inside my head. Jolted awake, I stumbled around trying to find my phone. Arabic reverberated unclearly, a Jordanian official’s voice booming from, from somewhere, saying something, I couldn’t make it out.” Eva Morgan gives her first-hand account of the air-raid sirens over Jordan this week, offering a unique perspective into…

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Comeback of the Witch

“As someone with a very strong interest in witches and their history, I love all witch-related media. However… there’s more that could be done to expand on this iconic type…

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Why does tragedy make us laugh?

“As she explained the tragic news, we both had the strangest feeling: we were trying not to smile. We were children in detention, lips pursed with an uneasy grin that…

LIfestyle

Flavours of Home: Tempura, a Metonym

Zac Yang reflects on tempura and growing up without a food culture, finding identity not in tradition, but in the rootless and cosmopolitan nature of this staple of Japanese cuisine.…

Identity

"For me, one of the most difficult things about exams is that normality goes out the window. Lessons, lectures, and tutorials that defined my week for the first two terms of Oxford life here have now become a series of scattergun revision classes." Image from Wikimedia Commons by Prosa, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilustrando_a_neurodiversidade.png

Exam Stress: Not Just A Stereotype

Exams can be stressful as an autistic person, they can be stressful for any person. A year’s work culminating in that small window at the end of Trinity Term is…


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