News
Imperial College London’s University Challenge team has progressed into the semi-finals after narrowly beating the University of Sheffield 160-120. Sheffield took a strong lead, but Imperial managed an impressive comeback thanks to the efforts of team captain Oscar O’Flanagan. “Imperial, that kimchi keeps bringing you luck,” quipped host
Books
A delicious collection of Murakami’s unique brand of realistic weirdness in 24 short stories. Some ended abruptly, some ended perfectly, some could only be understood in a certain frame of mind. It’s hard not to be drawn back again and again by any writing by Murakami – to dislike
Books
Braiding Sweetgrass is a beautiful collection of stories that, broadly, follow the life of the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer (a botanist and professor of environmental biology who is of Native American descent), and her evolving understanding of the relationship between scientific and indigenous ways of knowing, along with the implications
On the morality and limitations of using war as a tool of liberation in the Middle East.
How Emerald Fenell's adaptation of Wuthering Heights became a glossy, gendered spectacle.
Survey run by Felix finds that while students tend to enjoy summertime work experience, seeking opportunities is a highly stressful deed.
A settlement between UCL and former students is setting the stage for similar pandemic-related compensation demands from UK universities.
Felix investigates whether the seven fossil fuel companies selected during the first round of the Imperial Zero Index assessment really have a “strong strategic intent to decarbonise.”
After a long wait, it is our pleasure to present Felix’s first Drug Survey results. Keen to diversify this newspaper’s survey topics (currently, just sex) into more highbrow issues, last May the team launched a survey interrogating Imperial students’ consumption of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and other psychoactive substances.
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Books
I really enjoyed The Dream of the Jaguar. It follows the life of an orphan found in the street by a mute beggar woman in Maracaibo, Venezuela, who builds his life up from poverty until he becomes the most successful surgeon in the country. This family saga is divided into
Books
A stage-by-stage analysis of a romantic relationship from beginning to end, Essays in Love doesn’t completely lose its focus amid the passion of love, but it isn’t so objective that it reads like an academic paper. It’s full of discomfiting facts for romantics everywhere: chief among them
Film & TV
The new Game of Thrones prequel TV series triggers a review-bombing war with Breaking Bad fans, causing “Ozymandias” to lose its IMDb record.
Film & TV
An underdog in the awards season that can be interpreted as birth control in movie form.
Books
Immune by Philipp Dettmer I admit, I lied. I haven’t actually fully finished Immune despite coming back to it multiple times over the years. At first glance, it felt like a public-friendly introduction to the immune system which was good and all – but seemed all exposition. Fast-forward two years
Issue 1894
Felix visits Rasa Kitchen, the recently opened Malaysian restaurant tucked away in Sherfield Walkway.
Opinion
On the morality and limitations of using war as a tool of liberation in the Middle East.
Societies
The most recent Imperial DramSoc adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s best-known play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is as effervescent as it is camp while remaining faithful to the original text. 97 years after the society first performed it, this production was brought together over the impressively short span of
Societies
DramSoc recently performed Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest with great success. I went to watch it on Wednesday 25th of February, which was their first public performance, and although from what I heard it was not their best one among the next three they performed, it still
Societies
Women in Electrical Engineering Society hosted their second ever Tech For Good Challenge last week in collaboration with Apple.
Environment
While plant-based products are often have a lower environmental impact, coffee is one of the highest-emitting foods we consume at Imperial
Business
The peptide craze is spreading from pharmaceuticals, to cosmetics, to online “shadow markets,” raising environmental and safety concerns.