You can’t teach an old virus new tricks
James Bezer on the giant virus that is still infectious despite its age
Issue 1572
14th Mar 2014
Turner Round
Kieran Ryan takes the pilgrimage to Margate to see Turner and Frankenthaler
Thoughts on the Imperial Elections
I must have manifestos on the brain because after three weeks writing about a certain famous Communist one, I turn to our own election manifestos. Voting has occasioned the re-emergence of some long dormant reflections, recounted here.
The West Wing: A Retrospective
Emily Fulham takes a nostalgic look back at the Bartlet administration
Notes to a Fresher 3
Creative Writing students present yet more Freshers short stories
Modern Family
The result of over 7 years work, Jim Jarmusch’s latest film takes a bold new look at the gothic classic of vampires.
Hating headlines that tell you how to feel
There’s something strange about the way we treat emotions; they have become products to be bought and sold. It was crazy American Pentecostal Christianity that first got me thinking about this.
Get Ready For All Night At The Oscars
As we near the end of another exhausting term at our favourite university, the return of the hallowed Imperial cinema All-Nighter also rapidly approaches. In a year of unusually high caliber for Oscar nominated films, we’ve selected the crème de la crème of the Oscar crop just for you.
Epigenetics implicated in type 2 diabetes
Epigenetic differences are being found in an almost-unlimited number of diseases: cancer, epilepsy, arthritis, obesity. A recent paper published in PLoS Genetics has now found that epigenetic changes may influence how susceptible one is to type 2 diabetes.
Can you sense a space?
Have you ever been lost in a building? I don’t mean in the physical sense.
An alcoholic bucolic frolic
DramSoc’s spring term production of Jerusalem, directed by Grace Surman, opens with a young girl wearing fairy wings singing the eponymous hymn in the middle of the countryside.
Adonis Georgiadis comes to Imperial. Great…
This Sunday, Adonis Georgiadis will be the main guest in the final event of the “Greek Presidency in London” initiative held at Imperial, and will serve as representative of the Greek government.