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“Keep the Cat Free” 30/11/12 Issue 1533 felixonline.co.uk A naked ambition This week we have a reversible centrefold. That’s right, two for the price of one, which is free. Pages 19-22 Imperial teams on top Inside...>> TECH Damn Library Level 4, people never shut up Google music versus Spotify >>16 MUSIC Imperial team “IC IC Crowd (get it?) win The perfect Crowd” in the top 3 Imperial scientists launch petition WaterAid prize Vaccines? >>25 Aemun Reza News Editor 30 hours to create solutions to real-life Niall Jeffrey Reporter complaints via online social media and challenged faced by the charities. Th e through letter writing. Th e accusa- teams then presented their solutions tory nature of the campaign chastises 83 technology students from 15 dif- to the judging panel and a winning A new government e-petition has re- the transport companies for being in- HANGMAN ferent Universities participated in team was selected for each charity and cently been launched in opposition to volved in the trade. J.P Morgan’s fi rst ever Tech Coding an overall winning team was also cho- the perceived growing eff ect that an Th e lobbying has had large eff ect on Challenge. 17 teams competed in this sen. Th e winning teams were given iP- animal rights activist campaign has the industry, with the campaign suc- Hackathon-style event that took place ads, Amazon vouchers and the oppor- had on the transport sector. Th e pe- ceeding in stopping the companies, in the headquarters of J.P. Morgan tunity to continue working with their tition urges the government to pro- one-by-one, from taking part in the in Canary Wharf. Th eir coding skills chosen charity and with J.P. Morgan’s tect the transportation of laboratory practice. British Airways stopped im- were put to the test as they used tech- ‘Tech for Social Good’ team to turn animals to halt the loss of vital medical porting laboratory animals early on. nology to choose and solve a social their solution into a reality. research. Th is is a response to the in- Th is was followed by large ferry opera- challenge presented by three leading Two teams from Imperial reached creased refusal by haulage companies tors P&O, SeaFrance, DFDS Seaways. charities: Centrepoint, WaterAid or the fi nal of the competition. One to import the animals from overseas It was revealed that earlier this year Th e Nature Conservancy. team, called the ‘IC Crowd’, had the due to increased lobbying by the activ- the last major ferry operator, Stena, has Th e 2-day event was staged in part- following Imperial students: Pamela ists’ campaign. also pulled out of the trade. Th is has Ruining a nice nership with J.P. Morgan’s Technology Cruz, Francesco Di Mauro, Michal Th e activists, in disagreement to the closed off all sea routes for the impor- for Social Good team that are based in Sipko, Michal Srb and Giulio Mecoc- testing of animals, allegedly began a tation of the animals. 34 5 dinner party >> New York. Th e teams worked for over ci. Th ey fi nished in the top three >> campaign of targeting hauliers with Peter Wright, a PhD student in >> 4 2 FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER EDITOR’S PICKS 6 17 37 FEATURES >> TECH >> SPORT >> LCF review End of piracy? Hilarity ensues It’s always nice when people Music piracy is on the Sport reports are always hi- tweet at Felix. Well, some- decline now that it’s so larious to read. Sometimes times it’s nice. Here’s a re- cheap and easy to legally it’s the nicknames, some- view of last weekend that we get songs on a plethora of times it’s the idea that peo- were sent via Twitter. different options. ple can enjoy it (Triathlon!?). 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On the day of writing this I am turning At the age of about 19, being ID’d is plaint: the kids today spend all their time 23, and now probably need to become a basically tantamount to the person at messing about with silly, new technol- Local shops (Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Waitrose) 3 mins away, lots of places to eat terribly serious individual, or something the checkout slapping you in the face ogy, they deserve a good thrashing (and along Fulham palace road 5 mins away, 5 mins from CX hospital,8 mins form like that. I say this because that is what with a baby’s bottle and telling you to not in the kinky way). Answer: you were Barons Court (District and Piccadilly lines), 10 mins form Hammersmith sta- happens as you get older: you become go back home to mummy. The second the exact same as them. It’s just the tion (District, Circle, Piccadilly and Hammersmith and City lines) all grown up and proper. You use words 21 rolls around, you start trying to talk technology has changed. What seems Other local buses include 190, 211, 220, 295, N11, N97, 424, 430, 74, N74 like “whom”, have food that has been loudly about upcoming SATs in a bid to to you to be acceptable technology to “drizzled” with olive oil, and listen to BBC make someone ask you for proof of age. obsess over is just old news to the kids £160/week excluding bills – which will be shared equally between the two Radio 4. Admittedly, I love things driz- Of course, when actually asked, you today. It used to be a TV that everyone of us. zled in olive oil, but that’s not exactly my always have fake “I was drinking bad would want, now it’s the latest iPhone. Available now point. I won’t bore you too much with a white wine since before you were born There’s no way that in a column of “never let the inner child shrivel and die” son” indignance. this size I can go into as much depth as type spiel, but I really think it needs to be The strangest thing that happens as I would like to on this subject; there’s For more information or to arrange a viewing, text me on 07952503799, or said. I feel like nowadays a lot of people the years roll on is that you lose touch defi nitely no way that I can protect my- email [email protected]. just take life, themselves, and every- with your former generation. You for- self from the internet hatred by arguing thing in between a little bit too seriously. get who you used to be. You start be- everything in a nuanced and carefully Birthdays are usually fun, if not spent ing confused by younger generations deconstructing way. Therefore, I will feverishly trying to fi nish and compile and start to distort and twist memories just ask every single reader of this text LOLCAT OF TEH WEEK: Finding these is a perk of the job a paper on time (as this one is for me). of who and what you were at that age. to think about one thing. I’ll assume However, there is the slightly morbid The amount of people saying “oh, the you’re all at university: what is the latest sense of “yay, I’m one year older! Uhoh, youfs are terrible” is a testament to how craze that 10 year old kids are in to? Can I’m ONE YEAR OLDER. I’M SO OLD”. you forget what you were like. Perhaps you answer it? Remember crazes: pogs, For me, it’s not too bad... yet. I’ll start young people today have become a Pokémon, football stickers, Aliens that the tantrums about my age when my bit worse than before. Or, maybe, they could “mate to produce children” (they NatWest Young Person’s Railcard runs are just as rowdy etc but in a different couldn’t by the way)? I can’t say what out. That’s the moment when you know way to how you remember being crazy. it is. Think about what that means: you you’re really an old person. Then again, What seems like straight up debauch- are technically out of touch with them. I’ve stopped being ID’d when buying al- ery to you now, may not actually be as So next time you think an older per- cohol, so that’s a bad sign already. bad as what you did. In fact, it may not son is just out of touch, remember that It’s funny how when you get older even be that different, but you’re just we all are in a way. Don’t shout at them you fl ip round with your younger self. misremembering (usually caused by an for being ”ancient”, help them regain When you’re younger, it’s cool to write affl iction know as rose-tinteditis), or you touch. I’ll leave you with that, now I need evrythng lyk dis izn’t it. When you hit are unable to draw parallels as their cul- to celebrate my birthday by updating 6th form, that’s suddenly really lame.