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No Sweat

How to create the home gym of your dreams

by Kara Baskin

Harvard Sundered

Amid the Middle Eastern crisis, preserving room for reasoned debate

Image of a bat depicting the love-hate relationship associated with the creatures

Curiosities: Bats, In Fact

Peabody Essex Museum dispels negative myths around these nocturnal creatures 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photo of museum historian and curator Philip C. Mead

The Tangible Past

How Philip C. Mead enlivens American history

by Nell Porter-Brown

Ethics and Human Cells

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by Jonathan Shaw

Cartoon of John Harvard figure ice skating at Harvard Law School

Yesterday’s News

Harvard Law School: the skating rink

Abstract illustration of DNA, a patient's back with multiple bullseye rashes, and a deer tick.

Deciphering Lyme Disease

Whole-genome analysis exposes the sophistication and vulnerabilities underlying Lyme disease.

by Jonathan Shaw

Three ORT packets

Solving Dehydration

A simple solution that saved millions

by Max J. Krupnick

A woman with a backpack and a cup of coffee in a forest with fake snow and a small horse-drawn wagon.

Behind the Scenes

The quirky surrealism of production designer Sue Chan

by Stuart Miller

Portrait of Zelia Nuttall, 1880

Zelia Nuttall

Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)

by Merilee Grindle

FAS: Faculty and Fisc

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’s fisc—and aging professoriate

by John S. Rosenberg

Natalie Vinard, Harvard Magazine’s new publisher

Three Cheers

Welcoming the magazine’s new publisher and two editorial colleagues