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The Fit Fat
… now banned in some places) is practically poison, clogging the arteries and contributing to hypertension and heart … too, has good fat and bad fat—and the difference is not one of quantity, but of kind. When most of us think of fat … marks cell nuclei. The muscle fibers’ presence was a surprise; it indicated that brown fat is developmentally related …
Issue: January-February 2009
Arts and Sciences’ New Look
… At its first faculty meeting of the year, on October 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … Grading: “Inflation” vs. Compression In something of a surprise, Rakesh Khurana, Harvard College dean, and Claybaugh …
Before the Cocktail Napkin
… “The sketch on a cocktail napkin has become a modern-day … writes Cammy Brothers ’91, Ph.D. ’99, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Virginia. The architect …
Issue: January-February 2009
Fathoming Metabolism
… A thimbleful of your blood. To Robert Gerszten, that’s like a window on … well-being. In some cases, it may even let him see into the future of your health. Gerszten and his colleague Greg Lewis work …
Issue: May-June 2011
A Time of Trauma
… “Over these past few years, I have felt increasingly that … wrong—and this year ever so much more than last,” said professor of biology George Wald, who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in …
Issue: September-October 2018
“Find Yourself a Teacher…”
… At Morning Prayers last year, President Claudine Gay —then in office for two months and five days—drew upon an incident in … to our intellectual pursuits. If and when tensions among us rise, I hope that we will approach each other, not only as …
Robin Kelsey: Is a Photograph a Work of Art?
… What makes a photograph art ? A great photograph may be the result of skill and intention, or it may be the result of dumb … how should we think about the photographer who waits for sunrise knowing that the perfect suffusion of light in the sky …
Clues on the Wing
… Vladimir A. Lukhtanov saw Agrodiaetus butterflies of several species flying together, and even though they all looked much the same in most … all an inch to an inch and a half wide, with the same sort of spots, and, upon examination, same-shaped genitalia …
Issue: November-December 2005
Kitchen Arts
… and some wine,” says chef Jason Martin, as he strides into the kitchen at Dave’s Fresh Pasta , a gourmet deli and wine … not bashful,” says one woman. She pours the first glass of a crisp Austrian Grüner Veltliner and soon all 12 of the … with bowls, measuring cups, and a few Imperia Pasta Machines. Into a well of flour he pours a few beaten eggs, …
Issue: January-February 2016
Putting the Science in Social Science
… Can political scientists devise formulas to predict the outbreak of war? Although the notion seems far-fetched, James Alt … and pundits. "It bothers us that people say they're surprised by things that we don't think should be a surprise," …
Issue: September-October 2001
Admissions Angst: The Next Level
… College received about 35,000 applications for admission to the class of 2015 , according to data released today. This represents … the 30,489 applications received last year (when the number of applicants expanded by nearly 5 percent), and a more than …
Brainy Women
… The human brain rests in cupped hands as easily as a cantaloupe. It is softer and spongier to the touch, of course, and its surface … contemplated the brain and wondered not only how it gives rise to everything we feel, know, accomplish, and create, …
Issue: May-June 2002
Strokes of Genius
… Traditionally, Harvard has not been known as a golf power. The school’s most significant figure in the sport (if you … arguably is Edward S. Stimpson II ’27, two-time captain of the golf team, who in 1935 invented the Stimpmeter, a … seasons, under Fred Schernecker ’89, the Weissman director of golf, and coach Kevin Rhoads, Harvard’s linksters have …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Harvard Man, Redefined
… The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative -- which waives … parental contributions for families with annual income of $60,000 or less -- has made it easier for students from families of modest means to attend, but those students face a host of …
The Lawyer Librettist
… “Lucifer’s car was towed,” someone announced to the room—they’d have to start without him. The three Fates … finally arrived with breathless apology, the workshop cast of Rev. 23— all graduate students in the New England … program—prepared to take act one from the top. The curtain rises: the apocalypse is over. Heaven reigns on Earth. …
Issue: January-February 2017