You can be part of the cheering throngs at the Oxford Offal Conference, which will befall 8-10 July at the University of Oxford. The Offal Conference is this year’s incarnation of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery. On the menu, both intellectually and sur table: offal, offal, and more offal. What is offal, you may slightly […]
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Professor Simon Leonardo Altman
Professor Simon Leonardo Altman , Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, is a mathematical physicist whose main work is on group theory, quaternions, and solid state. Since his retirement his main interests have been history and philosophy of science, poetry, especially science poetry, and some work on art theory, mainly concerning right-left problems. His website […]
Professor Snape Conjures Conjugates
Two truths: Professor Snape is a character in Harry Potter novels. Professor Snape conjures conjugate vaccines. These are not the same Professor Snape. The second is likely sick unto death of hearing about the first. The first likely could not care less about the second. The second Professor Snape is Matthew Snape, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPCH, a […]
The Oxford Gallery of Blackboards
The Oxford Gallery Of Blackboards collects and shows images of blackboards. Nearly all of them display writing, some of which is legible.