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For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives

For detailed accounts of the panel presentations on the financial crisis...

Bailing Out Finance: How Will It End?

Safra professor of economics Jeremy C. Stein and University of Chicago economist Anil Kashyap outline the options, as they see them, for the federal government's promised $700-billion bailout for financial firms...

Thoughts on an Obama Win, or Loss

Klein professor of law Randall Kennedy argues that Barack Obama's nomination as a major-party candidate is a milestone in itself...

I Cook, Therefore I Am?

The "Meeting the Minds" column explores Moore professor of biological anthropology Richard Wrangham's argument that cooking food is what allowed for...

Facebook Profile Before First Steps?

This week's New York Times Thursday Styles section had an article about websites that let infants and toddlers set up profiles...

Tall Tales

Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...

The Teen Brain

It’s a paradoxical time of development. These are people with very sharp brains, but they’re not quite sure what to do with them...

by Debra Bradley Ruder

Proof Positive

Richard L. Taylor’s work connects two discrete domains of mathematics: curved spaces, from geometry, and modular arithmetic, which has to do with counting...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

This unorthodox de-mining team avoids most of the traditional pitfalls. Metal detectors give too many false alarms, fooled by bullets or other debris. Hand-held ground-penetrating radar machines are too expensive. Dogs weigh enough to trigger mines, injuring or killing themselves and their handlers.

Man, Mongoose, and Machine

Standing outside a Sri Lankan army base in the spring of 2007, Thrishantha Nanayakkara mapped an entire minefield without once setting foot in it.

by Paul Gleason

Daniel Carpenter

Prescription for Error?

In recent years, safety recalls of widely prescribed drugs like the pain-killer Vioxx have sent an unsettling message to consumers.