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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.
Orlando Patterson on Freedom and our sick democracy
America's troubled democracy
How can some species survive without sex?
Matthew Meselson and David Mark Welch explore the role of sex in evolutionary biology.
The Anti-thesis
I've always had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have heeded the...
Rigorous studies show that the placebo effect accounts for most of the benefits
Harvard researchers discuss the side effects of Prozac and other SSRIs
Fashion Victims?
I have to ask. I've seen it every day for three years now. Take your pick of location: the main doors of Sever and Emerson ....
Thomas Forrest Kelly teaches about “First NIghts”—musical premieres
A look at Thomas Forrest Kelly’s Harvard Core course on five musical premieres
Outside Interests
There are some ways in which Harvard College, for all its history and prestige, is a normal college with normal students. The undergraduates are...
"Adam Smith" meets Ji Chaozhu
“Adam Smith” meets Mao’s translator in a class of ’52 get-together.