FR IDAY, 15 TH MARCH, 2019 – Keep the Cat Free – ISSUE 1718 Felix The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London FR IDAY, 15 TH MARCH, 2019 FELIX EDITORIAL CONTENTS EDITORIAL 2 We've weathered the election NEWS 3-5 storm The Felix Team POLITICS 6-7 jaba – Felix y D Ed Editor-in-Chief onight's Lead- nd ito show of the week, with 2 Andy Djaba COMMENT 8-9 ership Elections A r more scheduled for next • Results Party week. Anyway, I just Deputy Editor SCIENCE 10-12 marks the end wanted to brag a bit to be Joanna Wormald Tof the election season. honest. Enjoy the Results • FILM 13 We've made it through Party, I'm going to be News Editor the never-ending Joanna Wormald vibing to Anderson .Paak • MUSIC 14-19 campaigning, the fake in Ally Pally. Politics Editors smiles and the Facebook Finally, I wanted to Avirup Banerjee ARTS 22-24 spamming. I'm proud of say a huge thank you to Divyen Vanniasegaram us. everyone in the Felix Juan Rubio Gorrochategui TRAVEL 25 This week also marks Fam! This term has • the final issue of Felix absolutely flown by and, Comment Editors GAMES 26-27 for the term (sad reaccs as I've said before, the Aida Manzano Kharman Charlie Titmuss only!). You'd think, with paper would be nothing • FOOD 28 only eight issues left in without you and your Science Editors my tenure as Editor, I contributions. Having Rosie Dutt INVESTMENT 29 would surely know how to said that, I still have to Eyad Abuelgasim write an Editorial by now. choose my Section of the Henry Alman SUSTAINABILITY 30-31 You'd be wrong. As per, Week. Despite an interest- Sânziana Foia I'm just going to waffle ing double page from the • LIBERATION 32 and run you through my Comment section, Section Tech Editor Krithika Balaji week until I've filled out that. It was also the first football until his sacking of the Week has to go to Haaris Asghar C&S 33 this page. Feel free to tap time I'd seen her parents in December. Also, I my Music section for a be- • out now. Tim and Lorraine since thought I'd developed hemoth six page section. Arts Editors HANGMAN 36-37 Last Thursday I attend- the funeral in November more of a personality than Check out the review of Claire Chan ed the WE Innovate Final, and we had a truly lovely "the guy that always talks Dave's Psychodrama to Helen Money-Kyrle PUZZLES 39 to celebrate women's en- dinner afterwards. I've about football". Guess I see my return to Music Vaishnavi Gnanananthan trepreneurship. The event been pretty happy since was wrong... Our defeat to writing. Massive shoutout • SPORTS 40 Books Editors was particularly special my team overturned a 2-0 Arsenal this weekend was to Adrian LaMoury for JJ Cheng for me because my friend deficit in the Champions inevitable, all good things putting in a mega shift and Felix Office • Beit Quad, Prince Consort Lauren's memory was League last Wednesday must come to an end. We laying out four of the six Music Editors Road honoured with a £5000 and this just felt like icing had a good run anyway. pages singlehandedly! Simran Kukran London, SW7 2BB prize being awarded in her on the cake. My birthday is coming Anyway, I think I'm Adrian LaMoury Tel: 020 79548072 name. Massive thank you Speaking of Man up next week (if you want going to leave it there. Henry Eshbaugh Email: [email protected] to Liz Choonara and Pro- United, for most of the to get me a present, I'll Drink water, listen to Asad Raja felixonline.co.uk fessor Maggie Dallman year I've successfully happily accept Hamilton Dave's album and stay • @feliximperial Film Editors for such a fitting and fought the urge to turn this tickets), and anybody that smiling; see you all in Mikhail Demtchenko Printed by Mortons Media tasteful tribute. Lauren Editorial into a weekly knows me well knows I May! 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If you’re interested, send us an email on [email protected] Jia Qi Tan Shervin Sabeghi 2 FELIX ISSUE 1718 NEWS [email protected] Imperial celebrates women's entrepreneurship at WE Innovate final NEWS Liz Choonara, Head of Cadget. Programmes & Commu- Cadget, a "pioneering" Andy Djaba nity at the Imperial Enter- new kind of orthopaedic Editor-in-Chief prise Lab, and Professor cast that is breathable, Maggie Dallman, Vice washable and easy to President (International) apply, could "revolu- and Associate Provost tionise the bone healing Lauren Dennis, 2016 (Academic Partnerships), experience". Unlike WE Innovate finalist who said: "It is wonderful traditional orthopaedic who sadly passed to see this community of casts, which are usually away in October 2018 female student entrepre- made from plaster or neurs grow". fibreglass and tend to be following a battle Following these, the bulky, uncomfortable and with bowel cancer, five finalists took to must be kept dry, Cadget also had a £5000 prize the stage to pitch their is made using a specially awarded in her name proposals to the expert engineered material that panel of judges, including can be activated to turn Kate Bingham, Managing from flexible to perma- Partner at SV Life Scienc- nently stiff in minuted. hursday 7th es, Sir Patrick Vallance, Clinicians would simply WE Innovate finalists // Imperial College London March saw five Government Chief Sci- mould the material around Thailand in which to pilot entrepreneurs entific Advisor, Sandra the injured limb and wait Cadget. awarded to Changavy compete for a Eager, Ventures Principal for it to harden, meaning Numerous additional Kajamuhan, whose team Tshare of a £30,000 prize at BP Venutres, and Priya it could be individually prizes were also awarded is developing Tommy, fund in the final of Im- Guha, Venture Partner at moulded to each patient during the final, includ- a non-invasive weara- perial Enterprise Lab's Merian Ventures. before it stiffens, making ing, for the first time, an ble device which uses WE Innovate women's Suchaya Mahuttanatan, for a more comfortable audience prize. Those in machine learning software entrepreneurship pro- an undergraduate Bio- experience. Suchaya is attendance were asked to accurately determine gramme. medical Sciences student, currently developing her to vote for the winer of glucose levels in people Lauren Dennis was The evening began won the top prize of prototype and has already the £5000 Lauren Dennis with type 1 diabetes. honoured at the event // with brief addresses from £15,000 for her invention, lined up five hospitals in Award. This prize was Imperial Enterprise Lab Is #fakenews damaging your health? research will strengthen NEWS named 2017’s (ultimate) evidence-based benefit, There is already evidence see it. However, perhaps the calls on the govern- ‘Word of the Year’ by placenta pills have gained to suggest that people’s more importantly, we also ment and give healthcare Alex 'Chippy' Collins Dictionary. It’s popularity in the US and trust in scientific infor- need to lobby the govern- providers clarity on the Compton almost impossible to are now gaining traction mation is breaking down. ment to act. Social media public’s healthcare per- National Collaborative for ignore fake news across in the UK. Despite no sci- As the lack of regulation algorithms (Facebook’s spectives. Health and Social Media social media and the entific backing for much around fake news and in particular) promote the We want to hear from sensationalist headlines of their advice, across the paid product endorse- spread of fake news and you! Completing our have percolated into pond Gwyneth Paltrow ments continues, the risk give it greater traction. survey also gives you healthcare. Of the most has managed to maintain to people’s health in- Without policies to protect the chance to win a £70 It’s time for some widely shared health ar- a following for her natural creases. If nothing else, it the public, the rejection of Amazon voucher. action from ticles published in 2018, health company- goop. places an already strained scientific evidence will tinyurl.com/healthso- government before it’s less than 50% were rated With social media pro- healthcare service under only increase. cialmedia highly credible and of the viding a global channel more pressure as people For action, we need too late top 10 shared articles, 7 for influence and social reject evidence-based evidence. There is a range contained misleading or media algorithms increas- guidelines for alternative of ongoing research into false information. ing its spread, is fake news and celebrity endorsed social media platforms ake News has Despite no evidence affecting your health? methods, many of which and those who use them.