Medical student and content creator: an interview with Tengyu Zhao
Felix speaks to Imperial student Tengyu Zhao about Felix, food and ways to share delicious meals.
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Books
Dubliners
Few authors in the Western canon are as inaccessible yet enjoyable as James Joyce.
Books
Magica Is Burning
On hope, individual responsibility, and the willingness to make a change.
Opinion
As young, educated and outspoken people, we should look up to Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg has consistently been on the right side of history; from protesting climate change since she was just 15, to protesting what is now considered by leading authorities as a genocide in Gaza. She bridged two vastly different societal issues into the same moral conundrum, stating that one “cannot
Opinion
Why I can no longer be a woman in STEM
Academic success is something that is measured quantitatively. This soothes our constant search for a material scale of self-worth in a life that lends itself to qualitative description. Though some may settle with the title of academic and the pursuit of knowledge generally, of knowing what has previously been
Editorial
That's all, folks!
A farewell from the Catnip 24/25 editor
Catnip
The funny and facetious Felix
The immortally radical South Kensington resident sits down for an interview on Gloucester Road for the first time in 75 years to talk COFFEE, CROSSWORDS, and CATNIP.
Books
Recommendations: summer reads
In a full circle moment, I present book recommendations from the Felix team. With a holiday spanning from July to October, I don’t believe any of the time-related excuses anymore. We don’t have exams around the corner. Forget your UROPs, summer internships, and imaginary self prescribed work.
Books
The Dorito Effect
Food has changed. Mark Schatzker’s The Dorito Effect exemplifies that. Using an overarching metaphor of a Dorito chip, originally conceived as a corn tortilla but now bathed in bucketloads of artificial flavourings, the book explores how flavour is manipulated to trick our senses into consuming food devoid of nutrition,
Sport
Student runs London Marathon in aid of Heart Research UK
Physics student Karam Ramzan shares his story of running the marathon.
Sport
F1 2025 Season Review, so far
We’re nearly halfway through the F1 2025 season, a season that was initially hotly anticipated to be wild and exciting.
Science
The changing face of infectious diseases in the UK
Amber and Eldrian discuss the UK's infectious disease landscape in 2025.