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On mornings

If you are one of those well-rested, or otherwise non-morning folk like myself, I tell you, if you need a change in your life, start doing mornings.


RECESS | CULTURE

Music Review: Parquet Courts' 'Human Performance'

With their third full album “Human Performance,” New York garage rock outfit Parquet Courts has produced their most varied and interesting album to date. In their first release since last year’s bizarre and borderline sadistic “Monastic Living” EP, “Human Performance” finds the band returning to its punk roots.


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Project Vox highlights work of women philosophers

For students, it’s often easy to take what professors say as absolute truth—but even they can’t know everything, especially when it comes to female philosophy. Project Vox is working to fill a void in philosophy’s canonical narrative by providing learning materials about female figures in philosophy and creating a website where the public can learn about the women and their philosophies.


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In praise of the non sequitur

I’ve been told I’m a “funny person.” This sometimes confuses me, because I wouldn’t necessarily describe myself as someone inherently inclined to comedy.


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Life, Love, and the Oxford Comma

Recent events have once again rendered Duke’s campus turbulent and fraught with strife. Protests against what many students consider a lack of accountability on the part of the administration have divided students into several camps – for every protester at the Allen building, there seems to be an equal and opposite counter-protester posting aggravated comments on Yik Yak.