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OxHums talk – ‘Olive planting in occupied Palestine’ by Corinne Grimley Evans
OxHums member, Corinne Grimley Evans, presents a personal view from her own extensive experience of what it’s like for ordinary Palestinians in the West Bank under occupation. Members and students free, non-members £3 donation please.
OxHums talk –
Speaker and details to be announced Members and students free, non-members £3 donation please.
OxHums Talk –
Speaker and details to be announced Members and students free, non-members £3 donation please.
Cafe Scientifique – Professor Laurence Harwood – Turning nuclear power green
The Cafe Scientifique is a successful UK community ,originally imported from France, to provide a public forum in which scientific ideas can be discussed informally involving scientists and non-scientists alike, aiming to inform, to entertain, and to provoke debate. The Oxford Cafe Sci meets on the second Tuesday of each month except August, all are …
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OxHums Talk – Your Humanism is a Thought crime by Bob Churchill of IHEU
The non-religious are discriminated against in almost every country, and in some places they face outright persecution. This may take the form of government-backed religious privilege, laws prohibiting advocacy of human rights or criticism of religion, even direct hate speech, threats or violence on grounds of atheism, humanism or secularism. In 13 countries you can be put …
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Oxf SitP – From butcher’s block to biology lab: using offal to build an ethical model of chronic lung infection by Dr Freya Harrison
People with the genetic condition cystic fibrosis contract chronic lung infections, which are highly resistant to antibiotics. Different species of bacteria come together to form slime-encased multicellular “biofilms” that clog the airways and protect the microbes within from attack by antibiotics, or by the host’s immune system. It can be very hard to predict, from …
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