Interesting Links for 23-01-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Edinburgh Bus Driver Day to Day Life

(tags:edinburgh buses )

2. "We were wrong that day." - Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon

(tags:USA riots )

3. Nutritionists Recommend Following Occasional Trail Of Sweets Into Dark Forest To Help Manage Cravings

(tags:satire diet fairytale funny )

4. How the civil justice system forced Hugh Grant to settle

(tags:UK law money )

5. 2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship

(tags:Oxford questions university )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Thank you!

[andrewducker]

Welcome!

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[wildeabandon]

I would really enjoy writing some of those essays!

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[andrewducker]

You're the kind of person they're looking for!

(I'd enjoy writing some of them now. But I was nowhere near that kind of understanding when I was 18)

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[calimac]

If that really is All Souls, those aren't for undergraduates. All Souls is the only Oxford college that doesn't have any.

Question 6 is one that's long baffled me.

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[andrewducker]

That one I can help with:
https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/deliberately-scaring-ourselves-can-calm-brain-leading-recalibration-our-emotions

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[calimac]

I often encounter arguments by people who seem unfamiliar with how the human brain works.

Now it's my turn. If this is how the human brain works, mine is of a different nature entirely.

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[andrewducker]

Mine too. Not that I don't enjoy mild peril, but I'm too sensitive to it to deal with much in the way of scariness nowadays.

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[channelpenguin]

Me too. Not that I FEEL scared (or much of anything drastic). I still don't like horror, especially injury, destruction and doom. Reality provides more than enough... (Not too much to me personally, thankfully)

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[andrewducker]

This one is also interesting on the topic: https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/not-too-scary-not-too-tame

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[wildeabandon]

Apparently you're only eligible within seven terms of the completion of your first degree, which I am somewhat beyond. Which is a shame, as I might well be interested otherwise. (Although at the moment Plan A is probably to stay at KUL for postgrad, unless the church gets its act together remarkably quickly and postgrad is in fact seminary...)

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[andrewducker]

I hope that the church gets its act together.

[bens_dad]

5. Scholarship exam papers.

Paper II, question 3 "How might shifting to the point of view of the global south modify your academic disciple ?"

I don't see PoV changing Pure Maths beyond "whether". Rahmanujan would be a relevant case study.

I suspect several of the questions are open to the "attack" a friend of my parents used. The question was something like "Who, in your opinion, is the greatest writer ?" - not followed by something like "Discuss".
His full answer was "Enid Blyton."
Since he had answered the whole question, they could not (and apparently did not) give him a failing mark.

[andrewducker]

In this case they aren't giving you a passing or failing grade - they're looking for the most interesting answers. And "Enid Blyton" isn't very interesting.