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Driving Birds Away
… you would avoid laying your eggs within three-quarters of a mile of either side of a busy four-lane highway that runs by Thoreau’s … That noise—not exhaust stink or the sight of speeding machines—apparently creates the broad avoidance zone on …
Issue: May-June 2005
Men and Their Castles
… Architect Ogden Codman Jr. grew up in the shadow of two men: his great grandfather John and his … span the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, shedding light on the rise of American interior design. But the personal nature of …
Issue: September-October 2024
For the Virtual Museumgoer
… The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth … Museums, Museum Purchase/Copyright©2003 President & Fellows of Harvard College Giving a gift to art lovers unable to … "Extra Ordinary Every Day." About Germany's Bauhaus school of art, it concerns the intersection of fine art and the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Use your Imagination
… Entertaining a child can often be a lopsided proposition. If you’re hoping to find a … so cleverly camouflaged that adults and kids enjoy “spying” them. Wick’s artistry is now on display in I SPY! Walter … celebrates Rockwell’s work but also the broader impact of visual culture. See Wick’s dioramas, optical illusions, …
Issue: July-August 2025
A Justice’s Modest Counsel
… When I arrived at the Supreme Court as a 20-year-old undergraduate, I was directed to the clerk’s office, where an assistant phoned Justice David Souter’s chambers to announce my arrival. To my surprise, it was the Justice himself who came down the hall to …
Issue: July-August 2025
The Choice to Bear Children
… When patients begin lining up before dawn and doctors’ office hours stretch into the evening, “There are so many other important … Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, where about 40 percent of residents have HIV. Matthews first started thinking about …
The State of Black America
… During a searching discussion Thursday evening at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on the “State of Black America,” historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad opened … warning: “We are facing uncharted waters.” Surveying the rise of Trumpism and the past several years of proliferating …
Saved from the Flames
… "Last night Harvard College suffered the most ruinous loss it ever met with since its … printed in Boston on January 25, 1764. "In the middle of a very tempestuous night, a severe cold storm of snow … by it. When it was discovered from the town, it had risen to a degree of violence that defied all opposition. It …
Mysteries of Mate Choice
… How do we choose romantic partners? The question has long interested sociologists, who … for answers. These widely available records generally offer useful demographic information on those who tie the … their racial background and education level. But in an era of rising divorce rates and increased cohabitation, when …
Issue: May-June 2012
Football: The 2022 Preview
… Mercifully, the annual 42-week interlude between Harvard football games … season by taking on Merrimack at Harvard Stadium. (Kickoff: 7 p.m. ) When we left you at the Yale Bowl last … Here is a thumbnail guide to get you ready for the 2022 kickoff. THE RECORD. Harvard’s all-time mark is 887-405-50. The …
Counting the War Dead
… How lethal are modern methods of warfare? Political scientists affiliated with the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO)—the … that produces the most commonly cited estimates of war deaths worldwide, in collaboration with Uppsala …
Issue: November-December 2007
The Forgotten Jugglers
… Everything is better on roller skates. At least, that’s what the Ader Brothers thought when they decided that their juggling act—in which they tossed upwards of 12 objects in the air simultaneously—needed more oomph. For vaudeville acts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, …
Issue: January-February 2023
Is Nuclear Power Scalable?
… Heinz professor of environmental policy John Holdren, who holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s department of earth and … needed to fuel a power plant) can easily use those same machines to enrich the U-235 to 80 or 90 percent, the …
Issue: May-June 2006
A Pediatrician Takes the Long View
… I am a converted pediatrician. A product of Harvard Medical School in the 1950s, trained almost entirely in adult medicine, I … CGD gene. The stem cells carrying the correct genes give rise to normal functioning granulocytes that can eat and …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Interim Agenda
… until a permanent successor to Lawrence H. Summers takes office. In late March, shortly before his second visit to … with Harvard Magazine . • On possible disarray within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) or other parts of the … be a lot shorter than last time. I will be mightily surprised if I am still in Massachusetts Hall past June of …
Issue: May-June 2006