I lost a good friend last week when she committed suicide. I found out about her death when people started writing posts on her Facebook wall like “Goodbye” and “I hope you’ve found the peace you were looking for.”
A slightly weird way to find out that my friend had passed away, I thought.
I was saddened [...]

I recently came back to Duke after spending 3 weeks in Peru. Here’s a picture of some native Peruvians.
The native people of Peru are descendants of the  Incans. The Incan empire dominated Peru from the 1400s to the 1530s. In the 1530s, the Spanish conquistadors arrived on the scene and conquered the Incans.
Many of the [...]

My older brother, Jonathan, owns a gym and he’s really into health and fitness. He recently did a radio interview where he was asked fitness-related questions. During the interview, he said something which I thought was pretty striking:
“We have confused what is average with what is normal. It is average to be obese, to have [...]