You’re probably wondering, after seeing all the fantastic new articles up on the site, exactly where copies of the physical paper are hiding. The paper is actually completely laid out and ready to go, thanks to our wonderful layout team who sacrificed all that time they could have been revising the week before term began, […]
The UK should unilaterally abolish the patent system
[Richard Neill]
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me….Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.”
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no natural right to the exclusive ownership of an idea, still
less to prevent other people from […]
A plea for silence
[Alexandra Piletska]
Student life here has always been a bit loud, but not in an exciting Brighton-kind of loud: Cambridge is not a party city and shouldn’t try to be. Rather, it is home to a more irritating sort of loud, where doors are slammed early in the morning and tasteless music is played at all […]