Sport
Harry Redknapp can’t save cricketers from Harlington pitch
Zain Rizvi describes the action from a rain-sodden Harlington pitch as Imperial fail to defend 79
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Film & TV
Camera d’Or winner
Ilo Ilo, Anthony Chen’s touching, naturalistic portrayal of family life in 1990s Singapore, has finally touched down in the UK, nearly a whole year after winning critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.
Film & TV
Bad boy bad boy
It’s comedy season again, and things are kicking off in the most family-unfriendly way possible (in both a literal ‘this is a crude comedy’ and ‘this is a comedy where unfriendly acts are committed against a family’ sense)
Sport
A Slip, a Headbutt and David Moyes...
A week after Manchester City won their second title in three seasons Kunal Wagle, Jonny Pratt and Football Columnist James White take a look at a Premier League season that really did have it all.
Film & TV
2013-14 television renewal and cancellation
May is the month television fans find out whether their favourite shows will be back for another season or not. So here is the rundown of some of 2013-14 season’s main primetime network shows and how well they are faring over in the States.
Science
Wait... are people actually starting to enjoy science?
Philippa Skett reviews Imperial Festival and the wider public engagement movement
Opinion
The End of the Great Recession?
The ‘Great Recession’ is over. To quote the Times: ‘It’s official’. This verdict, coming as it does from ‘one of the country’s leading economic bodies,’ is very impressive no doubt.
News
Royal Society of Chemistry awards five prizes to Imperial Professors
This week five Imperial chemists were rewarded for their contributions to chemical sciences with prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Opinion
Of mice and research, the Imperial festival, learning and voting
This week College took another step in the right direction on the journey of animal research by signing the Concordat on Animal Research, a document that promises transparency and openness about animal experimentation.
News
New study claims that lectures are ineffective
According to an American study from academics at the Universities of Washington and Maine, “students in classes with traditional lecturing [were] 1.5 times more likely to fail than were students in classes with active learning.”
Food
Introducing: Stir fry pasta
Sharing the Cheah family recipe: Quick, tasty and different
News
Imperial sign pledge to be more open about animals in research
On Wednesday, Imperial became one of the 72 organisations to sign a Concordat on Animal Research within the United Kingdom. The Concordat, which promises that the organisations will be transparent about their experiments on animals, follows an opinion poll conducted in 2012.