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The “Oxford University Experience” infographic [x-post /r/oxforduni]

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The original link was: http://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/styles/ow_content_width/public/media_wysiwyg/Oxford_FINAL_updated.png

Cleaning up after suicide bomber attack [NSF*W]

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This morning my partner’s daughter chained two words together for the first time :-)

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She’s 16 months old and while she’s gotten the hang of a few words (notably “cat” – she’s very interested in cats), this morning she surprised and delighted us all as I took her off to nursery by turning to her mother, waving, and saying “buh-bye mum-muh.” Totally adorable.

The little tyke herself.

Oxford University fundraising reaches £2bn [x-post /r/unitedkingdom]

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The original link was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-32702761

A University of Oxford campaign to raise funds for teaching and research has raised £2bn, it has been announced.

The institution began raising money towards new scholarships, academic posts, programmes, buildings and facilities in August 2004.

The sum stands at £2,012,571,521 but the university has now set itself a new target of £3bn.

Vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton called the milestone “an outstanding achievement”.

The campaign has been touted as the biggest money-raising project in European university history.

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TIL that in India long numbers are separated by a comma after the first three and every TWO digits thereafter: so “10 million” would be written as 1,00,00,000 (“1 karoṛ”).

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The original link was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

TIL that Liechtenstein was the last European country to give women the vote. This followed a referendum in 1984 (in which only men were allowed to vote): 51.3% voted in favour of the change.

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The original link was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein_women%27s_suffrage_referendum,_1984

Did I mention that I work for the libraries of the University of Oxford? Here’s a photo I took today. (a few more in the comments)

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If Google Glass etc. becomes mainstream, kids of the future won’t understand why we used to turn off the minimap/HUD/etc. when taking screenshots in videogames.

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Quakers: The Faith Forgotten In Its Hometown [BBC News]

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The original link was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32381926

It was the faith of two US presidents and several prominent UK industrialists, yet the origins of the Quaker religion are little known today by people living in the English town where it began. However, a new heritage trail targeting the American tourist market is aiming to change that.

In 1647, George Fox, a cobbler, was walking past a church in the East Midlands when he received what he described as a message from God.

The son of a Leicestershire church warden, he had spent years wandering around an England torn apart by civil war and increasingly disaffected with the establishment church.

The vision of Christianity he received outside the church in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was deeply radical – God was within everyone and there was no need for priests.

Within a few years, he was preaching to large crowds – and provoking the persecution of the authorities who felt threatened by his anti-priesthood agenda.

“He was fed up with preachers and professionals setting standards, leaving out the poorest people,” said Ralph Holt, a historian.

“He couldn’t see how someone could go to college and get a certificate and come back somewhere between this land and God.”

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I will answer all parts via SwiftKey without correcting anything, while entertaining a tusker. AMA!

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Just like it says! I’m looking after a toddler and I’ve got moments when I’ve got one hand few and cash type into my phone. But I’m going to type ask full speed and in nope going to correct and mistakes that come up as add result of my invertebrates autocorrect. AMA!

bad.horse. You were all thinking it.

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The original link was: https://www.bad.horse/

Hi, /r/MegaLoungeAvapoet. I hid a picture from you!

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The original link was: https://danq.me/picinhtml-examples/dan-gold.html

                One of Reddit‘s MegaLounges, access to which is gained by being gilded
              
                 in the prior MegaLounge (or /r/lounge itself, in the case of the firs
              
                t MegaLounge). For the last 5 years, it‘s been possible to buy “Reddit
              
                 Gold“ subscriptions, and for most of that time it‘s been possible to 
              
                anonymously gift individual months of Reddit Gold to other users (know
              
                n as “gilding“), in acknowledgement of a contribution they‘ve made on 
              
                the site. Having “Reddit Gold“ grants you access to the official gold 
              
                subreddit /r/lounge; getting gilded while in /r/lounge gets you access
              
                 to the unofficial /r/MegaLounge, and so on. There are several dozen ‘
              
                levels‘. I‘m pretty sure that an outside observer, given the advance k
              
                nowledge of this blog post, could easily tell when I‘m in the process 
              
                of getting over an illness just by the food I eat. I‘m pretty sure tha
              
                t I have a particular ‘tell‘ in the foods I look for when I‘m on the c
              
                usp of recovering from a cold, like now: or, I suppose, on those rare 
              
                ocassions that I‘ll have drunk enough to be suffering from a hangover.
              
                 Take this lunchtime, for example. I‘ve been off work for the last cou
              
                ple of days, laid low by what seems to be the very same cold that I wa
              
                s sure I‘d dodged when everybody else got it, last month (I blame Anna
              
                bel, the contagious little beast, who‘s particularly keen on shoving h
              
                er hands into people‘s mouths). Today I‘m back on my feet, but working
              
                 from home: I skipped breakfast, but by lunchtime I felt able to face 
              
                some food, and quickly determined what it was that I really wanted: An
              
                 egg and cheese wafflestack. If you think it looks calorie–laden and d
              
                isgusting, then you‘re right: but you wouldn‘t be saying that if you w
              
                ere recovering from an illness! Egg & Cheese Wafflestack Serves: 1 unw
              
                ell–but–recovering person Preparation: 15 minutes Difficulty: if you c
              
                an‘t make this, get the hell out of the kitchen Ingredients 4 frozen p
              
                otato waffles. I‘m using Birds Eye ones, but honestly, who can tell th
              
                e difference? ~ 30g mature cheddar cheese, grated or thinly sliced, br
              
                ought to room temperature so it melts quickly 2 eggs A little vegetabl
              
                e oil Tomato ketchup (alternatively, brown sauce works well) Method Gr
              
                ill the waffles in accordance with the instructions. Meanwhile, fry th
              
                e two eggs (“sunny side up“: keep the yolk fluid). Assemble in stacks,
              
                 with each stack consisting of cheese sandwiched between two waffles, 
              
                topped with an egg and the ketchup. Serve immediately. Eat as quickly 
              
                as you dare. So now I‘m sitting here eating the taste of delicious rec
              
                overy, generating 4096–bit strong probable prime numbers (like you do)
              
                , and reading the feedback on a browser plugin I released recently. An
              
                d every part of that is a huge improvement upon lying ill in bed. I sp
              
                ent last week in the French Alps with JTA, Ruth, Annabel, and some han
              
                gers–on. It was great to get out onto the snow again for some skiing a
              
                s well as some ski–based geocaching, but perhaps the most remarkable e
              
                vents of the trip happened not on the pistes but on an “afternoon off“
              
                 that I decided to take after a rather jarring 42km/h (26mph) faceplan
              
                t earlier in the day. A great thing about taking a GPSr for snowsports
              
                 is that you know exactly how fast you were going (my record is 101km/
              
                h!) when you crash. Not to be deprived of the opportunity for some out
              
                doors, though, I decided to spend the afternoon hiking out to villaflo
              
                u, a geocache only about a kilometre and a half away from our chalet. 
              
                Well: a kilometre and a half as the crow flies: it was also some dista

Happy Earth Day, /r/MegaEarth!

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TIL that the first ever speeding fine was given to Walter Arnold of Kent, UK, in January 1896. His speed: 8mph in a 2mph zone. He was caught by a policeman on a bicycle.

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The original link was: http://www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/motoring_firsts

Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, had the dubious honour of being the first person in Great Britain to be successfully charged with speeding on 28 January 1896. Travelling at approximately 8mph/12.87kph, he had exceeded the 2mph/3.22kph speed limit for towns. Fined one shilling and costs, Arnold had been caught by a policeman who had given chase on a bicycle.

The Story Museum’s hosting an overnight “hack event” in June, on the theme of Alice In Wonderland

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The original link was: http://digitaloxford.com/event/rabbit-hole-alice-wonderland-themed-digital-hack-event-hosted-story-museum/