Issue 1877
Glocalisation – blending trends and culture
From McBurritos to Vuitton’s Kusama dots, exploring the ways that make global feel more local
Latest
News
Hot Imperial startup ceases operations
Carbon capture startup Cyanoskin announced on Tuesday 7th October that it was “closing its doors”, citing “a misalignment between the product’s performance and the commercial requirements”. Cyanoskin was co-founded in 2023 by Antoinette Nothomb, then a MSc Management student at the Imperial Business School, and Emma Money from the
News
Rocky start for Imperial team in first University Challenge round
Despite losing in narrow 160 points to Churchill College, Cambridge’s 175, team still qualify for second round.
News
Imperial Professor Jason Hallett wins Royal Society Mullard Medal
The award recognizes Hallett's work in biorefining and the circular economy.
News
Royal Society awards Imperial Professor Sir Martin Hairer the Sylvester Medal
The award recognizes Hairer’s work with stochastic partial differential equations.
News
Royal Society awards Copley Medal to Imperial Professor Sir John Pendry
The award recognizes Pendry’s extensive work with metamaterials and transformation optics
Opinion
Mind Race: Neurotechnology amid Competing Nations
Comment Writer Apollo reflects on how the human race for neurotechnology has turned inward to the human mind
News
Picket lines and marches mark the first two days of industrial action
Members of the Joint Trades Union (JTU) formed picket lines around campus on Tuesday and Wednesday, as part of a first wave of strike action following a dispute with the College over its most recent pay award. In September, Imperial’s three recognised labour unions, which together form the JTU,
Books
The Beautiful and Damned
There is something to be said about the way F. Scott Fitzgerald’s sophomore novel The Beautiful and Damned appears to mirror its own contents. Its prose is nothing short of beautiful, full of sparkling phrases and sentences that don’t have a word out of step. It’s eloquent
Opinion
Mocking the Manosphere won’t make it go away: in conversation with Dr. Simon Copland
The Manosphere thrives on men’s feelings of loneliness and insecurity. Dr. Simon Copland believes the answer is not ridicule or rejection, but finding common ground and alternative spaces for connection.
Food
Weekday dishes
Nutritious and delicious!
Business
Imperial’s WE Innovate goes national
How WE Innovate helps women entrepreneurs, supporting startups from flushable pads to farming pods