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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Calling Duke a ‘religious school’ is disingenuous. They are a secular school that has a divinity program. The university pre-dates the divinity school by almost a century.

    They are widely seen as a world class medical, business and law school. Contributions include, the first ultrasound imaging, the first CFD analysis software, and cochlear implant development.

    They don’t focus on sports anymore than other peer institutions (think Northwestern, Stanford, Vanderbilt, or Notre Dame) they just caught lightning in a bottle with Coach K, and have been really good at basketball for a while.

    I say all of this to highlight, they are a legitimate, well funded active contributor to academia and research.

    They aren’t some hack religious institution that’s trying to play being a real school while shoveling indoctrination down your throat like BYU or Liberty.

    Duke is a legitimate research university that should be criticized even more harshly for the decision outlined in the article because of their history as a top tier research institution, not because they’re “a religious school that doesn’t care about science.”


  • While I’m sure the meat industry/lobbying has made sure people knew about the drawbacks of plant based meat I think there’s several legitimate reasons it hasn’t taken off yet. It’s firmly stuck in the middle.

    When compared to animal based meat plant based meat is:

    • more expensive
    • not hardly any healthier
    • doesn’t taste as good

    When compared to more traditional plant based protein, plant based meat it is:

    • more expensive
    • much less healthy
    • doesn’t taste as good

    The only benefit of plant based meat is that it’s more environmentally friendly than traditional meat.

    That’s something that most people don’t care to pay more for.

    I hope R&D continues into plant-based meat as I do think that once the cost comes down below animal-based meat it will see wide adoption. Especially because the price of animal-based meat will continue to rise.