Despite the hype around biomass as a "nature-based solution" to climate change, the biomass industry is defined by its rising emissions and the pollution it adds to disadvantaged communities.
I believe that sad music only ends up making us sadder, and that it does nothing but exacerbate this weird negative feeling that we get with the shorter daylights and growing workloads. If I am feeling somewhat negative, listening to moody music always makes me overthink and worsens any negative thoughts that I have in my mind.
Grades and GPAs don’t often reflect the growth a student has experienced over the course of a class or their academic careers, rewarding never failing instead of rewarding failing and getting back up again.
When used cautiously, these words can aid our speech: Without them, we’d sound robotic. But there’s a sweet spot we should try to land on. While drowning in fillers, we can’t expect to be articulate.
Duke is unveiling its own "Starbucks secret menu" of classes, if you will. Last night, the University dropped dozens of new courses on DukeHub, the website students use to register for their classes. I wanted to beat the University News section of The Chronicle to the punch and tell my loyal readers about the new offerings as soon as I found out.
Difference or diversity, even religiously or faith-wise, is embraced as a reality of the world of which Duke is a part.
My single was once the only place I felt safe enough to focus in, but exploring new campus spaces showed me how productive — and freeing — change can be.
A tour of Duke Chapel helped me discover the beauty beneath the surface — it’s our job as students to delve into the depths and find it.
A good share of my classes this semester has begun the same way — with what is now known by the students in my program as "the graph of death." The graph is deathly for both its implications and the outrageous number of times it has appeared before my eyes from lectures and guest speakers.
The mark of a capable leader is not one who exults in their power over those who are socially and systemically weaker than them but one who works actively to lift such individuals up through policies that chip away at biased institutions.
But the more I found myself on trans YouTube, and LGBTQ+ YouTube in general, the more I found myself surrounded by blatant queerphobic rhetoric. As in, the more I tried to look for information about LGBTQ+ topics, the more I found my For You page on YouTube suddenly full of armchair activists weighing in on the “trans debate”; therapists encouraging what is essentially a diluted form of conversion therapy and news anchors “roasting woman with pronouns.”
As a lover of film and television, I often find myself struggling to find something to watch. Movies in theaters feel uninteresting or often retell the same stories with a new cast. Television is no better with eight-episode seasons becoming the norm. This is after fans are expected to wait years to see more of their favorite characters.
The great tragedy is that Walz missed out on potential new voters among our student body and faculty. In my view, anyone who is a part of the Duke Democrats or has been invited, assuming exclusivity, is almost certainly already voting for Harris/Walz. Walz probably did not gain significant new voters from this event besides those possibly garnered from the resulting press and media.
The world is very different now compared to how it used to be 100,000 years ago. But some human trials have stood the test of time: through the years, we’ve struggled with confronting our mortality. One way we try to cope with that is by leaving a piece of ourselves behind.
Why should we expect our politicians and our fellow citizens to endorse outcomes they disagree with? Why shouldn’t we go out of our way to find reasons to reject a result we find objectionable?
Deadline just broke the news that Durham will host a new romantic comedy following a messy love triangle of three Duke students.
As the Hispanic vote becomes less blue each election cycle, news outlets continue to wonder why. In 2016 Democrats won 65% of the Hispanic vote, and in 2020 this percentage lowered to 62%. But a recent poll in The New York Times estimates that only 52% of Hispanic voters will go for Harris while 40% will vote Trump.
With so much having already been said — on all sides — about tomorrow’s election, I am taking my cue for this column from the Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama.
It’s fun to take it easy in a conversation and simply toy holistically with ideas instead of analyzing them. It brings out more humanity than most investigative discussions. These small conversations let us engage without the pressure of certainty, making room for genuine understanding. It’s not about proving a point but about grasping how someone else views the world.
There’s nothing quite like the buzz of competition among students. Whether it's vying for top grades, landing a coveted internship, or just showcasing who has the better campus spirit, the need to one-up each other is practically baked into academic culture. But is it really that serious? Or are we just overthinking it?
