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The Student Prince
… and house-made bratwürst, dishes that have been on the menu of The Student Prince Café & The Fort Restaurant … a gas fireplace in the main dining room Photograph courtesy of The Student Prince Then he nods to the walls that tell …
Issue: November-December 2021
The Chinese “Good Life”
… powerhouse, and a rising strategic force. But outsiders often have little sense of the Chinese as people. In Deep China: The Moral Life of …
Issue: January-February 2012
Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal
… phones and credit cards and televisions and computers; from the infrastructure of cities; from sensor-equipped buildings, trains, buses, … from our mother and one from our father—that together comprise 6 billion base pairs,” Quackenbush continues, “a number …
Issue: March-April 2014
Easing the College Transition
… challenges. Students from under-resourced high schools often struggle to navigate office hours, research, fellowships, class participation, … city navigation, and academic planning (see “Mastering the ‘Hidden Curriculum,’” November-December 2017, page 18). …
Issue: July-August 2023
Off the Shelf
… The End of Bias: A Beginning , by Jessica Nordell ’99 … collections steward presents items from the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture as pure, captivating forms. No matter … of the parental one percent (“Gatsby’s children”). The surprise is how miserable these cosseted, pressured youngsters …
Issue: November-December 2021
“Hearing Through the Body”
… Whether a train’s whistle or a cell-phone’s ring, sound is a … physical phenomenon, grounded in the vibrations of material objects. In a Monday evening lecture, “Hearing Through the Body”—part of the 2013-2014 Sawyer Seminar series “ Hearing Modernity …
From the Archives: The Examined Life
… Recanati professor of medicine Jerome Groopman has, for decades, been among the very rarest species of triple-threat medical … academician, at Harvard Medical School; and perhaps the best explicator of medicine and medical research for lay …
In the Monkey Seat
… Look at an eighteenth-century painting of English horse racing and you will see a jockey riding far back on the horse and sitting upright, perpendicular to the ground, "a point of calm stability as the horse stretched its legs out ahead …
Botanical Bounty
… amid suburban sprawl, lies a 45-acre haven called Garden in the Woods. This “living museum” offers refreshing excursions through New England’s diverse … That fact, and the serene beauty of these early-spring risers, are celebrated during annual Trillium Week …
Issue: May-June 2019
The SIGnboard
… As a new academic year begins, the Harvard Alumni Association’s Shared Interest Groups … our webinar series will be delving deep into the topics of farmland investing and big data in agriculture. We will … Harvard community members interested in raising awareness of, and providing education about, various cultural …
Issue: September-October 2014
Mathematics in “The Simpsons”
… The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, by the British … Simon Singh, illuminates some little-known facets of the popular, long-running TV show. It turns out that several of the writers for The Simpsons and its spinoff series, …
On the Margins
… Five whitewater kayakers gather on the banks of Peru’s Paucartambo River to deliberate … whether to paddle through an especially perilous section of rapids or carry their boats around it. They’re halfway …
Issue: July-August 2025
Digital Preservation: An Unsolved Problem
… Given the convenience and potential cost saving of digital … perfectly secure and complete, but still be unreadable by machines and programs in the future. A New Yorker cover …
Issue: May-June 2010
Senior Standouts
… 1,600 students graduate from Harvard College, entering the wider world with a mind-boggling range of individual talents and ambitions. Each will succeed on … or her own terms. Here, we introduce a mere seven members of the class of 2013—a snapshot of Harvard’s newest alums. • …
Issue: May-June 2013
The Force Was With Them
… If you were among the 40,000 who saw the 1968 Harvard-Yale game, you sensed an invisible hand shaping the waning minutes of play. Yale’s heavily favored team held a 29-13 lead, but an improbable combination of breaks and derring-do enabled Harvard to score 16 points …
Issue: November-December 2008