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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.
Federico Capasso: The Quantum Designer
From quantum materials design to “voodoo physics” in the nanoscientists’ weird world
Newfangled Networking
Photomontages by Flint Born Some people live at the technological vanguard. They operate their tie racks by remote control and read the...
Brief life of public thinker Stuart Chase
On a chilly autumn day in 1911, Stuart Chase entered the Boston Public Library and, finding a seat in the economics section, composed a personal...
Public-health response to gun fatalities: make weapons less lethal
The public-health response to gun casualties: make the weapons less lethal
Eyes Opened But Averted
I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I've recovered sense...
Profile of Harvard quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick '05
Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call...
Cole Porter to Coolio
They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, the Persian rugs, and the oak tables. The room is reverberating to a song called...
Going Home Again
The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...
The Prankster’s Secret
Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit?...
Extracurricular Communities
I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood...