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Oxford Sparks Big Questions

Nov 27, 2017

In this episode for the Big Questions podcast we went to the New Forest and met up with Professor Alex Rogers, from the department of Computer Sciences from the University of Oxford, to ask: Where have all the cicada’s gone? The New Forest Cicada is the only cicada native to the UK. During May to July it sings with a...


Nov 8, 2017

Last month Jessica attempted to break a world record for pushing a double buggy, with two children inside, while running a marathon! Jessica Bruce (Nee Leitch) is a Bio-mechanical Engineer at The University of Oxford and a mother of 2, and is putting regular marathon runners to shame. Last month Jessica attempted to...


Aug 31, 2017

Greenland has some many fascinating facts like it’s the world's largest island, it belongs to Denmark, it actually isn’t that green but mostly covered in ice. But did you know that Greenland is actually on the move? To walk us through how an ice sheet moves, we visited Professor Ian Hewitt from Mathematical...


Jun 2, 2017

Travel companies around the world profit from some of the cruellest types of wildlife tourist attractions on earth. Travel companies around the world profit from some of the cruellest types of wildlife tourist attractions on earth. Whether it is riding elephants, taking selfies with tigers, or performing dolphin...