By integrating electrification with broader energy-efficiency efforts and tailoring decarbonization for a diversity of scenarios, only then can we achieve our climate goals.
So, as we find our way in the world, we slowly do away with the traits that don’t please the people around us. Sometimes, this is necessary. It’s self-growth or perhaps even evolution. But more often, it’s self-erosion.
Listening to different perspectives challenged my own beliefs — and then deepened them.
I feel like my collegiate life has been measured in these cycles of self-beration, self-liberation, self-deliberation and back again, a recognizable oscillation that has served as the drumbeat for my own semblance of self-transformation as a young adult (emphasis on the trans). I’ve spent so long trying to rationalize my reasons for shifting place in a system that is, at its core, irrational, one whose rigidity and unnecessary reinforcement has been the cause of suffering, violence and death for too many people around the world.
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Growing up, we are told to "follow our dream." But what are our true dreams? We often limit ourselves to overly specific and almost improbable ones. It's time we rethink them.
All these serious people, past and present, are obviously not serious. After all, we might be scared enough to act, if we believed the U.S. could fall into dictatorship. But just to humor all this annoying pessimism, we provide twelve easy steps to help you prepare for the transition to dictatorship.
Learning a little about everything is beneficial to us both in college and later in our careers. At the undergraduate level, it should be highly encouraged. Duke isn’t helping.
2024 is a US election year and the world is watching. A German describes his experiences with the madness of US politics.
Last-minute efforts to save the pups included attempting to hire 19 bodyguards, one for each remaining puppy. I was lucky enough to be invited to see a session of 50 people, ranging from beefy to twig-like, being placed through the rigorous tryout.
As members of the broader North Carolina community, it is our responsibility to offer the same support. If it is within your means, I implore everyone reading this article to send even a little financial support to communities in Western North Carolina.
For the times in which we live, lament is on-time speech. If we remember all of the lives taken by international wars and natural disasters, it is time to lament.
And by consequence, we are denied the time and space we need to be immature, to make mistakes and learn from them, to grow, to have real, unfettered fun — to truly be children at all. All the while, the expectations both we and society demand of ourselves continue to tower ever-higher over us.
When my worth became entangled in my hair, I took some scissors and cut it out.
For those of us concerned about the health and future of democracy in the U.S., maybe the first place we should look for inspiration is inside our own workplaces.
In 2001, Marcellus Williams was convicted of the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter, and on September 24th, he died by lethal injection. Williams’s story exposes the cracks in our justice system that will continue to spread if we do not take action.
Roughly 10% of an iceberg is visible, standing above the water line. Most of it is hidden.
You can run, you can hide, you can break, you can lie — no matter what, you cannot escape yourself.
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Sitting outside of the Devil’s Krafthouse, watching the debate and knowing that at least some of the members of the Duke Democrats and the Ciceronian Society worked together to make such an event happen was a sign of hope. Collaboration and amnesty between left- and right-wing students is a fine first step. I hope we can incentivize voting without the fine print of who to vote for.
