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To say that comedy has to be funny is like saying visual art has to be pretty, or music has to be melodic.
I was immersed in a campus food environment where disordered eating was not only the aspiration, but the norm.
We tend to forget that Civil Rights have had a monumental impact on the South Asian American communities, not to mention several other marginalized identity groups as well.
If neuroscience can’t prevent a downward spiral, can it at least remind me to bring a parachute? Or an antidepressant?
Duke prides itself on its commitment to “interdisciplinarity,” but often its approach to doing so can be narrow-minded, and still operates on the mindset of using art to “humanize” or “popularize” STEM endeavors.
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.
But with these EXPO markers being such an effective tool for understanding and communication, should we be worried about their excessive use in schools?
The reality is, if we want to study mental illness, we have to make something mentally ill.
Why spend decades watching and rewatching these animals from a safe distance, highlighting every moment of madness or violence or tension like a quadrupedal reality show? To me, it all boils down to our own human, selfish need for individual discovery.
Sure, killing is an inevitable part of battle, but perhaps one could argue that, at least for the last year of the war, the American execution of every, well, enemy execution, can be inextricably traced to the Duke name.