The Ninth Edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines the word "procrastination" as to "defer action.
And an Oxford University study of 24,000 married European couples found a direct, inverse link between use of social networking sites and marital satisfaction.
Oxford University expert Susan Greenfield believes constant computer and internet use may be "rewiring the brain".
Reid Hoffman, one of the founders of LinkedIn, was a philosophy postgraduate at Oxford University and briefly contemplated becoming an academic before choosing the life of a billionaire instead.
They subjected some people to an essay by a supposed Oxford philosopher who wrote that life is meaningless because any single person's contribution to the world is "paltry, pathetic and pointless.
Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.
The Oxford University study examined marriage and cohabitation rates across the developed world and compared them to attitudes towards the roles of men and women at home.
"We think that this language was a stepping stone in civilisation which led to better co-ordination and co-operation that might have led us to expand," said Dr Quentin Atkinson, at the University of Auckland and Oxford University.
The contracting stomach muscles trigger a surge of feel-good endorphins, according to a study from Oxford University.
But being overweight, smoking, and having a previous knee injury does increase the risk, the team from Oxford Brookes University found They looked at more than 100 women aged between 50 and 70 waiting for knee surgery, and found that choice of shoes was not a factor.
She spent part of her degree studying in her native Britain at Oxford University.
We were riding back to Stratford in the spring of 1613 and Stopped for the night at the Crown Inn in Oxford.
After a year at Oxford University, Edward went to fight in the First World War.
1912 Edward enters Oxford University.
