A brief review of court cases involving the legal distinctions of corporations will show a several-decades-long trend of corporations claiming that they are entitled to the same rights as people. This was affirmed in 1888 by the Supreme Court in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Penn…
In the past few weeks the situation with COVID-19 seems to have spiraled from a distant issue into an unreal worldwide disaster. Travel has been banned, UK and other schools have switched to remote teaching, and now people are buying up all the toilet paper in stores.
As the sun stays out but we are forced to stay in, I wouldn’t be surprised if we have to start finding cures for cabin fever as well as COVID-19. I’ve found that laying on the couch watching Netflix was great for two days, but now that I’m on day four and UK classes have been moved to online…
The Mad Scientist is a new bi-weekly column by biology senior Thomas Hart.
