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(04/18/24 4:00am)
A study from this February by the University of Michigan estimated that 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real. The researchers analyzed over 7.4 million tweets from roughly 1.3 million people, who geocoded the posts and classified the posts as “for” or “against” climate change using an AI large language model. Climate change denialism was most highly clustered in the central and Southern U.S. and was further correlated with political affiliation.
(04/04/24 4:00am)
"Eggs are good for you," and "eggs are bad for you." "Wine is good for you," and "wine is bad for you." "Coffee is a superfood" but also "damaging to your health." "You should never eat saturated fat," but "it’s really not that bad according to science."
(03/07/24 5:00am)
When you learned physics in high school, you probably learned classical physics — a system of calculus-based relations and rules that are used to model several real-world situations, such as collisions, friction, circuits and the dreaded block on an inclined plane. Perhaps you fell in love with the subject for its ability to deeply and elegantly explain the natural world and chose to continue studying the field — be it academically or on your own time.
(02/22/24 5:00am)
I believe our relationship to science education is overwhelmingly transactional. We sit in a chair, have information presented, imprint it in the old noggin and then are tested on how well we’ve remembered said information. It’s like a file transfer, only most of the files kinda get corrupted or I accidentally drop the USB stick into a puddle of soup. While this form of instruction is not limited to the sciences, it’s most common for teaching big, foundational subjects like calculus, computer science or inorganic chemistry.
(02/08/24 5:00am)
“That TikTok left me depressed.”
(01/29/24 5:00am)
In case you were wondering, I’m an open, over-neurotic INFJ MBTI subtype who’s an Enneagram Achiever and visual learner. My Harry Potter house is Gryffindor, I’m a Left-Twix, and I resonate most strongly with Chandler from Friends and the brown M&M. As my father once famously said: "Once you choose brown, all the other colors let you down."
(11/03/23 4:00am)
Most people don’t know that barely a mile off campus, there’s an entire research institute dedicated to parapsychology (PSI) — the study of psychic and paranormal phenomena. Indeed, the Rhine Research Center, often just called “the Rhine,” is an independent, nonprofit center that seeks to explore the frontiers of human consciousness through unexplained experiences, such as clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis and near-death experiences.
(10/05/23 4:00am)
It has long been my dream to write an article about psychedelics, not just because I’m a self-proclaimed “fungi,” but because I have always been fascinated by these transportive, hallucinogenic and dissociative substances and the wild adventures our minds experience from their consumption. Having long been associated with insanity, rebellion, the 60s and California, psychedelics are becoming increasingly popular in clinical spaces. A growing number of studies reported psychedelics having great promise in reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, migraines and PTSD. Patients report an improved ability to address and process trauma when conventional treatment options fail, in addition to a stark reduction in behaviors related to more prevalent addictions like alcohol and tobacco.
(09/07/23 4:00am)
For over 50 years, physicists have generally agreed that the interactions between elementary particles are governed by four fundamental forces: the strong force, weak force, electromagnetic force and gravity. The former three forces are related through the Standard Model of particle physics, while gravity derives its explanation from Einstein’s general relativity.
(04/14/23 4:00am)
I remember seeing an Ozempic commercial for the first time a year ago, the familiar tune of the Pilot song “It’s Magic” playing on loop, only the words “it’s magic” were conveniently replaced with “Ozempic.” You know.
(03/28/23 4:00am)
I’ve loved comedy my whole life. My Indian parents raised me in true American fashion, spending our evenings watching sitcoms on our chutney-stained couches, smiling at the familiarity of yet another Trump joke from Stephen Colbert or Seth Meyers. I grew up on stand-up bits and riffing jokes with my stuffed animals like an absolute loser, and admittedly the first concert I ever attended was a live taping of “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me - the NPR News Quiz.” I’ve based much of my self-worth on my ability to make others laugh, despite never being a class clown, and the pursuit of laughter has motivated a great deal of my everyday decisions as any other dopamine-deprived, media-obsessed Gen Z kid in 2023.
(02/28/23 5:00am)
This week is Celebrating Our Bodies Week, a Duke version of NEDA’s National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Hosted by our local chapter of the international nonprofit Body Banter, this week will feature an assortment of events focused on educating students about disordered eating and eating disorders, as well as promoting student-led body image activism.
(02/21/23 5:00am)
It’s Black History Month, as every non-Black person might have reminded you. And as a politically-sensitive, self-obsessed Gen Z kid, there’s only one question I have to ask: how does this affect me?
(01/27/23 5:00am)
I came to Duke to be a neuroscientist. And that’s still what I want to do, although it’s been a strange, twisted journey getting there. Although I still haven’t taken a neuroscience class here, and instead have been filling my cognitive reserves with other questionably relevant facts about matrices, screenwriting transitions, and, of course, lasers (because Duke Physics loves their lasers).
(01/13/23 5:00am)
This past semester, I participated in the Laboratory Art in Practice: Building a Model for the Art/Science Lab at Duke Bass Connections team.
(11/28/22 5:00am)
If you ever go scuba-diving more than 500 feet into the ocean, chances are you’ll start to feel funny. Headaches, dizziness, vomiting, and even loss of consciousness are all common symptoms for those plummeting into the depths of their despair. This condition, coined by Duke researcher Peter B. Bennett, is called high pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS), and it’s a serious threat to recreational and professional divers.
(11/14/22 5:00am)
EXPO markers are an essential part of our education. For years, the way in which we’ve learned practically every subject has involved some adult, presumably with a teaching degree, writing information on a whiteboard, erasing it, and hoping that we remember it all. Of course, at Duke, that teaching model is no different — unless you’re a math or physics major, in which you now probably have a thin layer of yellow chalk in your lungs.
(10/29/22 4:15pm)
Disclaimer: This article references forms of animal experimentation that may be disturbing to some readers. This article rests on the belief that all research should minimize the suffering of living things, but in order to answer certain questions, science must employ methods that some find gruesome and unethical. This article aims to discuss some of these methods, not through a lens of saying this is the correct way to study a topic, but that it is a few ways in which Duke and numerous other research institutions create the very human experience of mental illness in non-human systems.
(10/17/22 4:00am)
Naturalistic observation is awesome. Every day, you go out in the wild, pen and notebook in hand, discreetly writing down everything you see and hear. Occasionally, you take notes from audio or video recordings or rely on the work of your colleagues to stay up to date. And over the course of several weeks or months, you review your material, extract trends, and try to impart some meaning to all the information you’ve collected.
(09/30/22 4:00am)
For those who have sat in, worked in, or slept in Gross Hall (shout-out to all the Pratt stars), chances are you know very little about the building’s titular figure, Paul Magnus Gross. Particularly the fact that he led a team at Duke to design a novel bullet that would help thousands of American soldiers to more effectively shoot their targets during World War II.
