Turns out we can thank a guy named Bacon for the concept of "taste," as in properly discerning the relative value of cultural goods.
Other
Nov 3, 2021
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27
As global environmental crises mount, numerous policies have been proposed with an eye toward a more sustainable future. However, such recommendations have often gone unheeded, falling by the wayside for lack of public support.
Ecology
Oct 20, 2021
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24
Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by smartphones and rapid gains in computing power that make the analysis of large data ...
Ecology
Oct 13, 2021
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7
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology, have found the first evidence of a religious diet locked inside pottery fragments excavated from the early medieval Jewish ...
Archaeology
Apr 7, 2021
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358
Online translation tools have helped us learn new languages, communicate across linguistic borders, and view foreign websites in our native tongue. But the artificial intelligence (AI) behind them is far from perfect, often ...
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2021
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2
Over the past decade, selfies have become a mainstay of popular culture. If the #selfie hashtag first appeared in 2004, it was the release of the iPhone 4 in 2010 that saw the pictures go viral. Three years later, the Oxford ...
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2021
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61
Disastrous fires, ongoing drought, and heat extremes have refocused Australians' attention on the human contribution to climate change.
Environment
Jan 30, 2020
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9
Researchers at Oxford University have discovered that a newly discovered group of cells can help repair tissues in the body.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 18, 2019
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337
A cutting-edge instrument developed by scientists at the University of Oxford has passed critical tests and gained a powerful adaptive optics system.
Astronomy
Dec 21, 2018
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42
Professor Sir John Beddington of the Oxford Martin School explains the Oxford Martin Principles for Climate-Conscious Investment:
Environment
Jan 19, 2018
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