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Harvard Graduate Workers Begin Strike

In the second walkout in six months, union leaders call for better pay and benefits and a stronger grievance process.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Recent books with Harvard connections

Gordon S. Wood on the birth of the United States, Steven Pinker on declining violence, Jack M. Balkin on "Living Originalism," and a dozen others whose recent books have Harvard connections

Erin Wade's Vinaigrette salad bistro serves organic greens in Santa Fe

Erin Wade's Vinaigrette salad bistro serves organic, home-grown greens in Santa Fe.

Meredith James '04 creates videos and sculptures that challenge perceptions

Meredith James '04 creates surrealist videos and sculptures that challenge perceptions.

by Jesse Kornbluth

“Lost Decades" by Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden: an excerpt

Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden review recent U.S. economic woes in the context of the “capital flow cycle.”

"Foreign Parts" film explores Queens junkyard neighborhood Willets Point

The documentary film "Foreign Parts" explores Willets Point, a vanishing junkyard neighborhood in Queens.

by Craig Lambert

Daniel Wegner finds that access to information online changes memory function

Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.

by Alexander Bloom

Michael Norton of HBS studies wealth inequality perceptions and preferences

Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome

George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.

by Courtney Humphries

Cygnus black hole confirmed by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.

by Jonathan Shaw

Peter Del Tredici of the Arnold Arboretum searches for the wild ginkgo

Peter Del Tredici’s search for the wild ginkgo and the secret of its uniquely long survival

by Jill Jonnes