March 1, 2008

Running on Wind?

Michael B. McElroy’s research group has launched an extensive program to define the potential of wind power as a source of electricity...

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Published in the March-April 2008 print issue in the section.

On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.

The play Spare Parts is a contemporary fable about the quest to live forever.

Plus, veteran higher education leader Thomas Ehrlich reflects on university curricula for his 70th reunion

A survey reveals suprising links between social media use and depression in adults.

Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge

Elizabeth Bartholet highlights risks when parents have 24/7 authoritarian control over their children.

But it can’t replace human connection.

The stakes are high for this husband and wife: one of them will die if they don’t find a cure.

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.