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Oxford was the most dangerous city in England in the 14th century with the highest murder rate due to Oxford University students.
To popularize STEM (an approach to learning and development that combines the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics) among the younger generation of women, all means are good.
When a professor of mathematics at Oxford and Cambridge Dr. Tom Crawford looks like this.
Tom Crawford has his own project on various social networks Tom Rocks Maths, where he tries to explain mathematics in a simple and entertaining way.
It's so bold and creative.
How great that in the 21st century people are moving away from stupid stereotypes, not contrasting appearance and intelligence.
You can be a busty blonde in tight clothes and still have an education in computer science.
An Oxford professor can love tattoos and informal clothes, etc.
Someone's name on the plaque was blacked out, I wonder who it could be?
Surely some local John (a household name) who decided that he was no worse than Oscar Wilde and David Bowie, and needed to inflate his ego by adding his name to the list.
In general, the stability of places in Oxford is impressive. The pub is almost the same age as the university.
Pub is an abbreviation for "public house".
A lot of interesting things are connected with these establishments traditionally associated with England. Pubs have always been closely intertwined with student life.
For example, Oxford turned out to be the most dangerous city in England in the 14th century with the highest murder rate due to Oxford University students.
British scientists included Oxford in the Medieval Murder Maps project - a digital resource displaying crime scenes based on investigations dating back 700 years. They found that the center of education in medieval England had a murder rate per capita that was 4-5 times higher than London of the same period, and 50 times higher than modern British cities. In the vast majority of cases, students were both criminals (75%) and victims (72%).
According to Professor Manuel Eisner, director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, the violence on the streets of medieval Oxford was due to the prevailing environment.
"All Oxford students were men between the ages of 14 and 21. These were young people freed from the strict control of their families, parishes, or guilds and thrown into an environment full of weapons, with wide access to alcohol and sex services," the scientist explained.
In addition, many students were members of regional fraternities, which became an additional source of conflict within the student community.
The researchers noted that in most cases, the murders were motivated by domestic disagreements and quarrels on the streets and in taverns. The reason could be a dispute over a woman, hurt honor, or even urinating in a public place.
This description from 700 years ago reminds me of the time when I lived in a dormitory at Moscow State University.
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford.
Britain's first public museum.
Its first building was erected in 1678–83 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to Oxford University in 1677.
It is also the world's second university museum, after the Basel Museum of Art was founded in 1661 by the University of Basel.
Some interesting things from the museum:
1. History of England
2. The fertility god of predynastic Egypt Min (18+)
3. Neolithic Yorick decorated with shells
4. The god of love Eros sweetly sleeps
I recommend the selection in the blog Notes from Oxford for those who are interested in England.
I am now thoroughly hooked on books and materials on evolutionary biology and psychology, ethology, neurophysiology and I don’t know how to stop.
Dawkins, Sapolsky, Lorenz, Chopra, Harari, Pinker, Peterson… I listen to lectures by Dubynin (I attended his special course at the biology department of Moscow State University) and Drobyshevsky.
I'll be honest, I haven't read fiction for about 5 years (but I don't feel like it anyway), only popular science: biology, genetics, neurology, all sorts of naturalistic themes...
This whole intellectual hodgepodge in my head is also accompanied by reading historical blogs about comparing the crisis of the Roman Republic and the transition to empire and the USA now, the Civil War in the States, as well as books about feminism.
Something like that...
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