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Ben’s Cookies faces price rise

A regular cookie from Ben’s Cookies, the cookie chain founded in the Covered Market in 1984, now costs £2.20 after a price rise from £1.85.

Oxford Professor Receives Grant to study Ethical AI

company in May 2022, under the name of James Currey International. It is named after the South African book publisher James Currey. It has sponsored African authors to attend both Oxford and Cambridge, through awards of the James Currey Fellowship. Nwelue told Cherwell that “[the Society] was established in partnership with the University of Oxford”. However, Oxford clarified: “The James Currey Fellowships are not awarded, funded, or run by the University”.

Attendees of the event told Cherwell that misogynistic remarks made by its organisers and other audience members made them feel “incredibly uncomfortable”. One student said: “Explicitly sexist comments were made throughout by the speaker and audience which were not challenged and were in fact encouraged. … Comments made suggested that women slept their way to the top, which oppressed men, and that marrying a woman held you back in life”. Another student added: “A key point

Professor John Tasioulas has been awarded a research grant to study the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). He will attempt to understand how fundamental questions of human rights, democracy, and determinism can be applied to AI.

Oxford led research finds small rises in temperature can trigger significant human displacement

The study estimates a 1° celcius temperature rise could cause a 10 fold increase in forced migrants.