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A sample of slime mold grows clockwise in a petri dish

Can Slime Molds Think?

A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.

by Nancy Walecki

Borders from family Christmas letters, in Christmas seasonal motifs and colors

Family Newsletters of Holidays Past

Origins of a beloved, bemoaned Yuletide tradition

by Nancy Walecki

Specimen cicadas, a photograph of Harvard museum collections

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Sandeep Robert Datta

The Mystery of Smell

COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once-obscure field of science.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Bruno Carvalho stands in front of a city background

Bruno Carvalho

An urbanist’s lifelong study of the “rhythm of cities,” from Rio to Cambridge 

by Nancy Walecki

Letters from our readers

Liberal arts, repatriation, sea level, palindromes

The stein-laden mahogany back bar, and original 1935 booths at the landmark restaurant The Student Prince

The Student Prince

A Springfield, Massachusetts, tradition lives on

by Nell Porter-Brown

Head shots of smiling Aloian Scholars

Aloian Memorial Scholars

Enriching life at the Houses 

Jason Bouldin at work on a painting in his studio

The Art of the Portrait Painter

Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photo of new Harvard campus shuttle electric bus

Brevia

Campus shuttle’s electric buses, planning chief, and other news

Illustration of a seesaw with a house on one end, and an apple, representing teaching, on the other.

Optimizing Public-School Spending

Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools

by Erin O’Donnell

Giant cartoonish elephant sculpture of Dr. Suess character Horton

The Places You’ll Go

Art, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in the Connecticut River Valley 

by Nell Porter-Brown