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LIB DEMS GREEN UKIP Economy Economy Economy Economy Economy felixonline.co.uk @felixImperial /FelixImperial [email protected] Keeping the cat free since 1949 issue 1603 May 1st 2015 Professor Stefan Grimm: internal Inside... Let’s pick apart review results released Poldark External academics criticise findings: “Imperial just doesn’t get it.” Page 5 Television 30 Things are heating up in Chile Travel 28-29 The sweet taste of the Avengers Taking Film 31-34 Volleyball club celevbrate the What YOU need victory in BUCS finals to know about the General Election lead Pages 7-14 Sport 40 2 01.05.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX This week’s issue... 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Come Email: [email protected] Copyright © Felix BEN HOWITT procrastinate with us, we Tel: 020 7594 8072 MATTIN MIR-TAHMASEBI have Diet Coke. www.felixonline.co.uk CECILY JOHNSON FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 01.05.2015 3 News [email protected] News Editors Carol Ann Cheah, Cecily Johnson & Kunal Wagle What you may have missed over Easter Carol Ann Cheah recaps some of the last month’s news stories 420: Thousands gather in Hyde Park, more than 50 arrested As pro-cannabis protesters openly smoked the drug in Hyde Park on April 20 (an annual global celebration of cannabis, where calls for drug law reform take place), police ended up arresting 53 people. 16 were taken into custody, whereas 21 were released on bail and required to return to the station at a later date. Many participants distributed cannabis leaf-shaped flyers and held picket signs, with one notable one reading “Ed Milliband wouldn’t want his own children criminalised for cannabis possession.” Dozens of police officers and prominent police signs saying “Possession of cannabis is illegal” were also noted at the event, with a Met Police Spokesman having said that “anyone seen by an officer openly smoking cannabis in Hyde Park or in the Westminster area could be issued with a warning or face arrest.” The 420 Day event was organised James Dyson outside of Imperial Photo: James Dyson Foundation by a reform-seeking group called NORML UK, along with the UK the Royal College of Art. a shot of DNA with each puncture. Automatic Sentiment Analysis in Cannabis Social Clubs (UKCSC). October 2015 will see the School’s There are many proposed uses for the the Wild, the research will be led by Speaking to the Guardian last year, first ever intake of students, where resulting product; one major idea is to Professor Maja Pantic from Imperial, Greg de Hoedt, president of UKCSC, the initial cohort will first use prevent unsightly burn scars during along with guidance from various gave the following statement: Imperial’s existing facilities. By the healing process. At present, organizations’ experts including “The cannabis community is crying October 2017, teaching is expected to patients have to wait until the healing AOL, Ipsos, Skype, and Kaplan. out for legalization and regulation. move to the new building: the former process is complete before treating Realeyes is known for its technology We encourage growers to register Post Office Building on Exhibition any discoloration and uneven that uses standard computer webcams with UKCSC because we want data Road which was purchased by surfacing with plastic surgery, laser to measure subconscious responses we can present to authorities and Imperial from the Science Museum. resurfacing and/or medical tattooing. from audiences as they view video say: this many people grow cannabis, The new School was made possible One of the key reasons of treatment content. Present-day facial coding this many people are growing for by a £12m donation from the James by introducing DNA into cells is technology and emotion analytics, medicinal purposes; and we can also Dyson Foundation, which is the to reprogram how they respond to including what Realeyes currently establish which strains work with charity’s largest ever single gift. This damage. However, inserting DNA offers to its clients, can measure which illnesses.” is not the first time the Dyson name into cells can be tricky: injections the six universal basic emotions has been involved with Imperial only allow for one cell to receive (anger, fear, disgust, happiness, College London: Sir James Dyson is new DNA at a time, whereas using sadness and surprise), as well as Dyson School of Design a longstanding supporter of the IDE genetically engineered viruses engagement. Realeyes however says Engineering Masters program, and in 2014, Dyson (perfect as they are nature’s experts at that ‘likeability’ is actually a complex Ltd announced a £5m investment in hijacking cell DNA) cannot guarantee emotional state, which automated Launched in late March by a new robotics lab within Imperial. that none of the virus’ genes will emotion measurement technologies Chancellor George Osborne and contaminate the process - something cannot currently detect. It also industrial engineer Sir James Dyson, potentially lethal. The nanoneedle stresses how likeability is directly the new Dyson School of Engineering Bye-bye ouchies: invisible silicon bandage, on the other hand, linked to sales, is the first new engineering mending for the human body "...build will be safer and more efficient at With names like Adobe, Google, department set up at Imperial in on a reprogramming whole tissues. IKEA and Ford on its list of clients, the last two decades. The School will "..police Researchers at Imperial College Realeyes boasts collaborations with be housed at the former Post Office London have developed a novel way worldwide various Fortune 500 brands and a Building on Exhibition Road ended up to treat severe burns and assist in Big Brother really IS variety of publishers. SEWA, which The School will offer three courses organ transplants. The team, led by database watching you: better video will improve the current Realeyes next academic year: a 4-year MEng arresting Molly Stevens from the Institute on how emotion/likeability tracking platform, will build on a worldwide in Design Engineering; and two 53 people, of Biomedical Engineering, have software to be developed database of how ‘likeability’ is linked Masters programs, one in Global designed sheets of silicon bandages ‘likeability’ to emotional reactions. Realeyes Design Engineering and another in 16 were coated with nanoneedles for this is linked to Tech outfit Realeyes, in conjunction says it has recorded the emotional Innovation Design Engineering (IDE). taken into purpose. with Imperial College London, have responses of over 60,000 people The latter, with a 30-year history The idea is that the healing emotional received a €3.64m grant from the in conjunction with answers to formerly under the Department of custody... " capacity of tissues can be boosted European Commision for a project a series of ‘likeability’ questions Mechanical Engineering, is being by microscopically puncturing reactions” to improve the former’s emotion- relating to sharing content and jointly offered in collaboration with thousands of cells at once, delivering tracking technology. Dubbed SEWA: recommendations. 4 01.05.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX News [email protected] News Editors Carol Ann Cheah, Cecily Johnson & Kunal Wagle Ebola may increase cases of malaria Philippa Skett reports on the latest finding from the MRC he most recent findings incredible 140% in Liberia. This is from the Medical Research equivalent to 3.5 million cases of the TCouncil (MRC) Centre for disease, and a further 10,000 malaria- Outbreak Analysis & Modelling has attributable deaths.
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