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Although it’s now considered a “fad diet" on many popular health websites, it’s a mind-boggling reality to reflect on how powerful the Rice Diet was in shaping the landscape of diet culture not just in Durham, but the country. What this story shows us about the allure of weight loss and the lengths our culture pushes to pursue it can be an entire thesis.
Many studies have suggested that we might do a lot better individually and collectively if we were only more patient. If we weighed payoffs with logic rather than emotion, we could start thinking of choices as long-term investments.
So often, the headline news spotlights start-up companies where the excitement is in the beginning of a new venture. What doesn’t get much attention at all is the end. Doesn’t it matter how we end, too?
Before I come off as a self-righteous off-the-grid-holier-than-thou character, know that I occasionally redownload and doom scroll for hours, for I am only human. But, taking intentional breaks has made me conscious of how the app literally rewires my brain.
Duke will inevitably shape who we are in many ways — and where we choose to study is no exception. Here’s my very objective (not) take on what that means.
When I woke up on November 6th, I immediately checked my phone. Although I had a strong suspicion that I knew who America had elected as our president, I wanted to be sure. After I received confirmation that I was right, a small part of me was happy; my prediction was correct. However, I felt an overwhelming sense of disappointment and concern for my community.
One day, I was a varsity women’s golf recruit with aspirations shaped by years of training and competing — the next, I was a former athlete faced with an overwhelming question: What is my purpose now?
Duke, I’m here to help you help us — your precious students — by suggesting ways in which you can save us from having to move our cars during home football games, all while preserving that cash flow you love so dearly (and keeping Iron Dukes happy).
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.
To support the creation of an alternative, non-Zionist and anti-Zionist, diasporic Jewish community, we have formed a new group: Duke Jewish Solidarity Movement.
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.
