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The Modern World Reconceived
… Who are the protagonists of The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New … rich through entrepreneurship and the funding of enterprise, of the officials of states and government who see … Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital” …
Issue: May-June 2023
The Rise of the Wind Industry
… As the Chinese , Spanish, Indian, and American governments subsidize the growth of wind technology as a source of renewable energy, they’re … to government subsidization, within a larger context of the rise of green businesses in multiple industries, including …
Issue: March-April 2012
Rise of the Little Guy
… a contract with a big record company; an author needed the promotional help of a commercial publisher. But no longer, points out Nicco … has its pluses, for sure. In the case of entertainment, the rise of the Internet has made it easier for the public to … The Internet has led to cultural and economic changes that …
Issue: September-October 2013
What Happens When Infections Stop Responding to Antibiotics?
… Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most significant global health threats of the … New antibiotics are developed, used sparingly to prevent a rise in resistance (a practice known as “stewardship”), and … Harvard Medical School experts discuss the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. …
Yurong “Luanna” Jiang, M.P.A. ’25, Graduate English Address: “Our Humanity”
… in Mongolia, I got a call from two classmates in Tanzania. They had a very urgent question: how to use their washing … all study together here at Harvard. That moment reminds me of something I used to believe when I was a kid: that the … It was built on this exact beautiful vision that humanity rises and falls as one. When I met my 77 classmates from 34 …
River Mid-Rise
… The strong geometry of Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard housing on the Charles:tower, courtyard, and … Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2003
Football: Harvard 31, Merrimack 7
… In its game against Merrimack last Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team’s offense kept moving down the field but struggling to score … quarterback. But on this day, he did a convincing imitation of a running back, particularly on his 24-yard and 19-yard …
The Authoritarian Reflex
… days after Donald Trump surged through Super Tuesday toward the Republican presidential nomination, Harvard political … point. In a survey from 2011—well before the candidate’s rise—44 percent of Americans without college degrees approved of having a … Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies. …
Issue: March-April 2020
The Digitally Enhanced Rise of PSY
… Church that he was “shocked” and humbled to be invited to the podium. But the “Gangnam Style” pop star hardly seemed nervous, riffing about his meteoric rise to stardom for more than an hour, which forced a … his lyrics, recalled attending Boston University School of Management in the mid 1990s, where he was known by the …
Who Owns the Robots Rules the World
… Robots And Computers Could Take Half Our Jobs Within the Next 20 Years”…“Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work by 2045”…“White House Predicts Robots May Take Over … beat humans in Jeopardy, chess, and Go, it should be no surprise that they will soon be able to do many of our jobs as …
Issue: May-June 2016
The Gravity of Glacial Melt
… In the popular imagination, sea levels rise in response to a … many scientists also assumed the same thing. That’s when professor of geophysics Jerry X. Mitrovica (then at the … Jerry Mitrovica explains the uneven rise in sea levels as glaciers melt … The Gravity of Glacial Melt …
Issue: May-June 2010
Computing in the Classroom
… On November 11, 1953, psychology professor B.F. Skinner sat in a fourth-grade math class, … It was Parents Day at his daughter Deborah’s school. The lesson seemed grossly inefficient: students proceeded … for the Ludic Century,” Zimmerman argues that the rise of computers parallels the resurgent cultural interest …
Issue: March-April 2015
Stop—and Ponder—the Presses
… Tours of the Museum of Printing , in Haverhill, Massachusetts, begin, naturally, … Romano says—including one of only 50 working linotype machines in the country. That revolutionary invention, … A unique museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts, offers a history of graphic arts. …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Rise of Color
… The 1934 Rockefeller Plaza exhibition of advertising and … page 84). The High Art of Photographic Advertising, a reprise of the 1934 exhibition, is on view at Baker Library, … As consumer products grew more colorful, so did the ads. View an image gallery. … The Rise of Color …
Issue: July-August 2010
Engines of Change
… Has barbed wire ever been portrayed more glamorously than in the prettily framed advertising poster above for the I.L. Ellwood Company? A fence of the material, built to protect one’s livestock from … was complete. The editors of the exhibition sum up: “The rise of modern American capitalism, enabled by the expansion …
Issue: January-February 2014