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Oxplore Should healthcare be free

WEBPeople who are from poorer backgrounds often have worse health. Do you think: B: Money should be spent in a way that means people overall get the best possible health …

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Oxplore The Home of Big Questions

WEBWe tackle complex ideas across a range of subjects and draw on research from Oxford University.

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Oxplore Is knowledge dangerous

WEBOne day, you realise that your work could produce knowledge with military applications, such as how to develop even deadlier missiles than those currently available. This is …

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Oxplore Are humans more important than plants

WEBSince the 1960s, these drugs have been used to treat blood cancers and have improved survival rates from 1 in 5 to 9 in 10! It takes 900 kg to make just one gram of the drug …

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Oxplore Is fantasy better than real-life

WEBThe benefits of gaming are that we’re given a wider range of choices than in real life, and we’re given instant and consistent feedback about our decisions in the form of rewards. …

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Oxplore Could we end disease

WEBMorgellons Disease is a condition that has been described as having ‘sci-fi like symptoms’. These include: Intensely creepy-crawly skin and fibrous strands which stick out from …

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Oxplore Is falling in love bad for you

WEBElizabeth Bishop’s poem ‘Insomnia’ (1951) expresses what it's like to be abandoned by someone you love. Bishop describes this feeling through images of reflection, like the …

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Oxplore Can war be a good thing

WEBUniversity of Oxford expert Patricia Clavin takes us on a whirlwind tour of the piggybanks of countries like Germany, Japan, Britain, Austria and the US, looking at how they were …

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Oxplore additional-resource

WEBMental health at Oxford. Below is a video created by the Oxford University Student Union for University Mental Health & Wellbeing day. It focuses on how important it is to speak …

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Oxplore theme-questions

WEBWe tackle complex ideas across a range of subjects and draw on research from Oxford University.

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Oxplore Should footballers earn more than nurses

WEBOne of the highest paid positions in nursing is the Director of Nursing. How long would it take a Director of Nursing to earn the annual salary of a premier league footballer? 10 …

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Oxplore Are real-lifefriends better thanonline ones

WEBA useful friendship: people who help each other do stuff, like study buddies. A dependent friendship: people who can’t be happy unless the other one is. A virtuous friendship: …

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Oxplore Would you rather be free than safe

WEBOur liberty – the state of being free from abuse and the control of other people– is a key human right. This allows us to move freely, succeed, and work. Of course, this right has …

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Oxplore Does prison work

WEBThe Prisoner’s Dilemma. The Prisoner's Dilemma is a model from the mathematical field of Game Theory. Originally developed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher in 1950, it was …

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Oxplore Does music matter

WEBIn this Sci Show video, Hank Green explains how this works, and gives a demonstration of the creepy sounds that can result! Dating back to at least 18,000 BCE, the bullroarer is …

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WEBGuns don’t kill people - people kill people. Every time there’s a mass shooting, people respond in the same way - they call for tighter gun-control laws to make it harder for …

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Oxplore Are humans more important than other animals

WEBChimpanzees, which are our closest living relatives ( we share 98.8% of our DNA !), are often used to learn about culture and the origins of standing upright. Animal bones give …

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