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Twin Passions
Both these elegant little books on science and religion are by eminent Harvard professors emeriti—much-revered researchers, writers, and...
Icy Pinnacle
She is not just another female Chinese-American Olympic hockey star. Julie Chu ’06 (’07), a two-time Olympic medalist in ice hockey...
Cambridge 02138
Critic Frank Rich Craig Lambert writes (“Reviewing ‘Reality,’” March-April, page 40) that New York Times columnist...
Keeping the Vibes
How do you play a broken record? “Take a picture of it,” says audio engineer David Ackerman, who heads the Audio Preservation...
Documenting Disaster
Ever since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Carl Lindahl ’70, a research professor of English at the University of Houston, has...
David Williams
David Williams studies how social factors affect health. Education and income affect health, that’s clear. But why, as is the case, should...
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips on a platform,” wrote Henry Adams in his Education, “was a model dangerous for youth.” In this opinion Adams...
Chapter & Verse
~Who proclaimed that photography is to painting as water is to wine? ~Who protested, “They have taken away all our liberties—now...
Jete Propelled
Heather Watts says that she prepared for teaching her Harvard course, “George Balanchine: Ballet Master,” the same way she used to...
Culture(less) Club
During the year and a half I have spent as a student at Harvard, I’ve been befuddled by tRNA in a Life Sciences 1a lecture, experienced...
by Emma Lind
Imperial Salukis
“Chinese emperors were expected to be cultured gentlemen, whether they were or not,” says Robert D. Mowry, Dworsky curator of...
Ready for Growth?
Harvard proposes to put shovels in the ground not only to build a new campus in Allston but, far more modestly, to put up a research and...