I have spent this week glued to the Worldometer.info COVID cases tracker. The website offers just the right level of statistical detail. Not too much, to prevent information overload and enough variety to allow for frequent viewing. The format is simple. Two sets of graphs showing the number of
Watching the US election over the last couple of days I have been struck time and time again how poorly polling and probabilaty predictions have been interpreted. With the arrival of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight and the widespread adoption of quantitative poll aggregation techniques, it had appeared to me that
I feel something of a fool. My editorial, published last week on the 30th October was titled ‘Half way through term, things are looking up’. That shows what I know and the foolishness of making off the cuff predictions. Instead we as a student body see ourselves once again thrown
Imperial Athletes should not have gone ahead. Everything that I have seen and heard tells me that the Union was not ready to introduce such a major change and their stubbornness will not endear them to the student body. Despite the promises being made eventual functionality, we call on Imperial
An editorial is where the editor may abandon objectivity and revel in opinions pure and simple. The new Felix website has launched and I would be remiss not to tell all readers that it is a beauty. Felix has long had issues with its website. We have stumbled from one
The Editor-in-Chief wonders about one of the few silver linings in the current global situation
The Editor-in-Chief offers some thoughts on the ongoing US protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd
The paper is in a difficult situation. For those that have been struggling to access Felix like they would have I can only apologise. We have tried to get a website off the ground and ready but there are still teething problems. Unfortunately, ironically if many people do get to
I was lucky (I will leave it to my readers to decide if they agree with the word choice) to be in the Felix Office over looking Beit Quad at 7am on Thursday morning when the Beit fire alarm went off, driving students into the cold in their pajamas dressing
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