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The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
More than 300 scientists worldwide, working collaboratively, have created an extraordinary image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole, is just 25,000 light-years (more than 147 trillion miles) …
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Notes on Doctoring
During his first year as a neurology resident, Michael P.H. Stanley ’13 was paged to the room of a delirious patient. The terminally ill man, agitated and defiant, had gotten out of bed, taken off his hospital gown, and was packing his suitcase to go …
Issue: January-February 2022
Reading the Winds
When Sophia Montgomery first sailed, she hated it. Then eight years old, she disliked the waves and felt seasick. She kept getting hit by the boom—the long metal pole at the bottom of the sail. And she didn’t even know how to turn her boat around, so she …
Overseers Petitioners Challenge Harvard Policies
As campaign announcements go, it was as splashy as could be: a page-one story in The New York Times of January 15, headlined “How Some Would Level the Playing Field: Free Harvard Degrees.” The article detailed a plan by five people to petition for slots …
Harvard Humor
At year-end, Harvard people are popping up in summaries of 2010, occasionally in humorous ways. Among the newsmakers highlighted by The Onion, the online satirical daily, is former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan, who graduated from her role as …
Up Close (Virtually) with the Forbes Pigment Collection
The Harvard Art Museums’ world-famous Forbes Pigment Collection, which holds more than 2,700 pigments that have been used in artworks all over the world, is usually inaccessible to visitors. It sits behind glass walls on the fourth floor of the museums’ …
One Shot at Hollywood
“A wild ride.” That’s how Alex Molina A.R.T. ’15 describes DASH , the film he recently helped create, currently showing online through April 17 on Cinequest , an independent film festival. A feverish and fast-paced thriller, DASH follows a rideshare …
Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Fava Beans, Beets, Grapes, and Arugula
Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Fava Beans, Beets, Grapes, and Arugula Serves 4 Ingredients • 1 cup Red Quinoa, cooked (use your favorite grain if quinoa is not available) • 1 cup Fava Beans (use canned or dried beans, or substitute with Garbanzo …
Protesting, at Home and on the Streets
On the morning of Saturday, May 30, Elijah C. DeVaughn ’21 dressed in an all-black outfit—Adidas track pants, a shirt with “melanin” printed on it, and a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers—donned a protective facemask, and drove from his home in Compton, …
Online-Education Updates
Four years after Harvard and MIT launched edX, their online-course venture, in May 2012, MIT scholars have published “Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms,” a review of the field. Its lead authors—Karen Willcox, professor of …
Issue: November-December 2016
Supporting Cast
Nicholas Britell ’03 fell in love with music through the movies. Chariots of Fire made him want to study classical piano, and as a 12-year-old, he took obsessive notes on James Horner’s score for the 1992 hacker film Sneakers. If, like Horner’s shimmer of …
Issue: September-October 2016
Loneliness—Bad for Body and Mind
Few people would consider loneliness a positive condition. Many come to know its unfortunate mental toll at some time or other during the course of their lives—but medicine is increasingly recognizing the physical toll it takes, too, especially when it …
Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA
A team of scientists led by Feng Zhang ’04 of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT announced Thursday the discovery of a bacterial protein, called C2c2, capable of editing the genetic information contained in RNA. The research, to be published in the …
Football 2019: Penn 24, Harvard 20
We’re beginning to sense a pattern. On Saturday at the Stadium, in its final home game of the season, the Harvard football team experienced its fourth consecutive agonizing loss to an Ivy League rival. This time the tormentor was Penn, which scored on a …