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Major and Minor Music Compared to Excited and Subdued Speech
Major and Minor Music Compared to Excited and Subdued SpeechIn a paper appearing in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, a Duke research team shows that sad or happy speech can be categorized as expressing major and minor intervals just as music does. So your mother was right: It's not only the words you say, but how you say them. From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 1285 2 ratings Time: 00:18 More in Science & Technology
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Duke Lemur Center Expansion
Duke Lemur Center ExpansionA new 7000-square-foot building will improve the lives of rare and endangered animals in the world's largest collection of lemurs outside Madagascar. From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 350 1 ratings Time: 00:57 More in Education
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Sallie Bingham Symposium
Sallie Bingham SymposiumRecognizing the career of Jean O'Barr. Learn more at library.duke.edu From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 65 1 ratings Time: 02:05 More in Education
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Tree Planting at Duke University
Tree Planting at Duke UniversityStudents team up with Arbor Day Foundation to keep Duke green. Learn more at www.duke.edu From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 12 1 ratings Time: 02:01 More in Education
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Jumping Water Droplets
Jumping Water DropletsThe key to super water-repellant surfaces. Learn more at news.duke.edu From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 235 5 ratings Time: 01:13 More in Education
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Jan Riggsbee on Service Learning
Professor Jan Riggsbee explains the benefits of service learning.Published 3 years ago
Some Bacteria Zig When Others Zag
Some Bacteria Zig When Others ZagDuke University scientist Lingchong You finds that understanding the split personalities of bacteria can aid synthetic circuits. Learn more at news.duke.edu From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 453 1 ratings Time: 00:38 More in Education
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Speed-Dating for Science
Faculty in the Duke Institute of Genome Sciences & Policy were asked to describe their work in just 90 seconds, or suffer soggy consequences.
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One Year Later: The Duke Economy
Duke University officials discuss what budgetary progress has been made and what the next two years look like.As part of an ongoing effort to enhance internal communications, the Office of Communication Services introduced quarterly forums in 2006 called Primetime to provide a venue for staff and faculty to hear directly from senior administrators on significant issues and events at Duke. http://www.hr.duke.edu/primetime/index.phpPublished 3 years ago
Duke Global Health on Capitol Hill
Duke Global Health Institute and Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) give Sept. 16, 2009 briefing on universities' roles in advancing global health.
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Flash Photography
Flash PhotographyDuke Researchers capture video of "gigantic jet" lightning 200 miles away off the coast of North Carolina. From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 12128 9 ratings Time: 01:55 More in Science & Technology
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Learning Cancer Secrets From A Worm
Learning Cancer Secrets From A WormDuke biologist David Sherwood studies a model of how cancer invades other cells. Here we see an animation of the anchor cell in C. elegans drilling its way through basement membranes. From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 500 4 ratings Time: 01:12 More in Science & Technology
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Learning to Walk
Learning to WalkUpright human ancestors evolved from creatures that came down from the trees, rather than up from knuckle-walking, according to a new analysis by Duke University anthropologists. Story - news.duke.edu From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 860 4 ratings Time: 02:15 More in Science & Technology
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Student and Athlete at Duke University
Student and Athlete at Duke UniversityDuke University student-athletes talk about meeting challenges on and off the field. Learn more at www.goduke.com From: DukeUniversityNews Views: 510 3 ratings Time: 02:08 More in Education
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A Mentorship in Emerging Medicine
Two recent Duke University grads teach mindfulness meditation in Africa. Learn more at www.dukeintegrativemedicine.orgPublished 3 years ago
