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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.
No Answers for O-
The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to...
Ryan Fitzpatrick: The best Harvard quarterback since Barry Wood '32?
What's up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since...
An entomologist at work on the Encyclopedia of Life
In the Dominican Republic, a project to write the first chapter in the encyclopedia of life
Debunking the Double
On the third day of my eight-week stint as a summer-school proctor, the mother of one of my charges reminded me of the difficulties that can...
What Crimson Means to Me
My first Harvard memory is deciding not to go here. I had never really considered attending, but my high-school principal, a big Harvard...
Who Built the Pyramids?
Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.
Accidental Academics
(Please note that I should not be writing this column: I have a thesis chapter due on Thursday and pages to go before I sleep...) Harvard...
A-courting They Shall Go
A month before our plans of study came due last May, many of my fellow first-years became frantic. Having to choose our concentrations when we...
Crimson, White, and Blue
On a campus steeped in lore and history, perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of...