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How Americans Turned Against Knowledge
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Brief life of Mary Ellen Avery, groundbreaking neonatologist
Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011
A new Green Revolution grows from agricultural technologies
Can microbial technologies lead to better, more abundant food?
Brew’s clues: profile of Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian's "beer historian"
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.
by Bailey Trela
Harvard researcher Erica Walker combats urban noise
Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs for 2018
A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups
How news outlets have the power to change conversation
Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.
by Oset Babür
Harvard Overseer and HAA elected director nominees for 2018
The official 2018 slates
The building blocks of how babies reason
Research with infants suggests the ability to understand abstract relationships.