Tag: Teddy Hall Expo

  • The Fuel of the Future

    The Fuel of the Future

    Westminster Bridge, London. Photo by Hugo Sousa on Unsplash Today, humans will extract almost 100 million barrels of oil from the Earth. The size of this continuous flow of black sludge is difficult to visualise but let’s try; combined with the extraction of coal and natural gas, the flow rate of fossil fuels out of the Earth every… Continue reading

  • Cantonese on Hong Kong’s Side, Mandarin on Beijing’s Side

    How do people from high-context culture talk about the elephant in the room? Hong Kong is such a place trapped in sensitive political issues in recent years. How do Hong Kong people express their political opinion, and how do listeners perceive such implicit information with little misunderstanding? The answer is the language they use. Continue reading

  • News: College Survey Finds Strong Support for Sustainability.

    New research conducted in the summer of 2019 and released today reveals broad support for slashing the environmental footprint at St Edmund Hall (SEH). The results of a survey conducted by undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate teaching fellow members (JCR, MCR, and SCR, respectively, also known as “aularians”), not only uncover an 86% approval of this… Continue reading