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On slowing down

I got out of work on Monday at about 4:30 p.m., just as the day was on the cusp of turning dark. It was not quite raining, but dripping, and warm.


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Theater department mainstage show questions scientific morals in 'Air Pump'

Duke Theater Department Presents “An Experiment with an Air Pump” The Theater Department’s fall mainstage play presents one simple question: “What price would you pay for knowledge?” “An Experiment with an Air Pump,” by Shelagh Stephenson, examines two families—two communities of scientists—who are each struggling with the morals and ethics of medical research in their respective time periods.


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The internal playlist

If you ever see me around campus, more than likely, I’ll be wearing headphones. Whether I’m studying, making my way to classes or working in my lab, I promise you that I will have two, worn buds jammed into my ears at all times.


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Five women in one: "Unveiled" highlights Muslim identities

Rohina Malik, a playwright, and actress raised in London and living in Chicago, will be coming to White Lecture Hall this Saturday to perform her one-woman show “Unveiled.” The performance, which is sponsored by Duke’s Muslim Students Association covers topics of hate crimes, racism, love, Islam and culture, features Malik playing many different characters and focusing on five women who serve different kinds of tea before the audience and reveal their individual stories.


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Conference examines the films of French director Alain Resnais

From a documentary about the Nazi concentration camps to a historical drama about an infamous embezzler to a light-hearted comedy-drama about the effects of terminal illness, Alain Resnais’ work has always been marked by its diversity of both genre and tone. Resnais was a French film director whose work spanned almost eighty years, from the time directly after World War II through contemporary society.


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Music Review: Fading Frontier

Deerhunter is almost impossible to pin down. With influences coming from everywhere on the musical spectrum, the Atlanta band’s sound has evolved from fuzzed out post-punk on their debut Turn It Up F***** to gentler indie rock on Microcastle to psych-rock and dream pop on their 2010’s widely acclaimed Halcyon Digest.