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What Does the Arctic Circle Sound Like?
… and composer Claire Dickson ’19 was on a tall ship in the Arctic Circle when she composed the first song on her … from Svalbard, Norway through the Arctic Circle as part of a two-week artist residency, dropped anchor off a rocky beach. Dickson had an idea, listening to the …
Winning the West
… The 1949 season was a disaster. In a quixotic bid to restore Harvard football to national prominence, director of athletics William Bingham scheduled an opening game … 44-0 drubbing that put a half-dozen Crimson players out of commission—was widely seen as giving Ivy League football …
Issue: November-December 2013
How to Cook a Thesis
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The senior thesis, a big chunk of original work, is the culmination of the honors track in … in the early 1900s into her mental oven, but it failed to rise. Instead, she turned to the vast cookbook collection at …
Issue: January-February 2005
Alumnus Moungi Bawendi Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the … The trio were honored for “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” crystals so small that they are governed … that Bawendi produced were almost perfect, giving rise to distinct quantum effects. Because the production …
Ensnared
… morning in February 2012…Marcella Wagner was driving down the interstate toward Chico State University, where she had … program…when suddenly another driver swerved in front of her. To avoid a collision, she jerked the wheel hard, and … a lifetime of personal-care assistance, should the need arise; everyone else will end up impoverished, reliant on …
Issue: September-October 2014
Micro-units: A New Trend?
… The micro-unit trend (see “Living Large in Tiny Apartments,” … to develop in the United States. In November, the city of San Francisco unveiled plans to build new “SmartSpace” … guarantee a quality of life.” … Tiny apartments are on the rise in cities like San Francisco and Boston. … Micro …
Women in a Woeful World
… for him to discipline her. Sharifa Bibi, Pakistan H alf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women … Prize-winning husband-and-wife journalists Nicholas D. Kristof ’82 and Sheryl WuDunn, M.B.A. ’86, is more than just … its readers to take action to solve it. The book—a series of essays and anecdotes that work together—forms an argument …
Issue: September-October 2009
New England Public Gardens of Note
… Maine 207-276-3330 http://rockgardenmaine.wordpress.com Blithewold Mansion, Gardens, and Arboretum Bristol, Rhode … note around New England. … 39926 … Notable public gardens of New England … New England Public Gardens of Note … article …
Issue: March-April 2013
What Makes the Human Mind?
… During the past few decades, a mounting body of evidence has shown … observed in nonhuman animal species, a divergence arises from the ways in which multiple capacities interact in …
Issue: November-December 2008
Off the Shelf
… Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life , edited by Louise M. Antony, … or hostile to religion to hold that morality is independent of the existence of God. Antony is professor of philosophy at the University …
Issue: September-October 2007
Countering Alcohol
… In the fall of 2003, dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross—once an … treatment at the College. (Gross had earlier pointed to the rise in UHS admissions as an indication of a student body …
Issue: January-February 2005
Developing Danang
… In central Vietnam, well north of the tropical Mekong Delta (see “ A Nation, Building ”), … increasing complexity in a mixed economy. New office towers rise near the Han River, and the waterfront features an …
Issue: May-June 2014
Safe Streets
… Autumn evenings, light off the Charles River glistens through Memorial Drive’s rusting … target is distracted driving. Pedestrian deaths began to rise in 2009—two years after the iPhone’s debut. Now …
Issue: March-April 2025
A Life in Tai Chi
… After rolling around on the floor for a play’s fight scene, Jessamyn Conrad ’00 was … House affiliate and the senior adviser and chief instructor of Harvard’s Tai Chi Tiger Crane Club. An expert in kung fu, … at the milk machine or something and said, ‘I’ll take care of it,’” Conrad recalls. Lee firmly massaged her bruises for …
Issue: November-December 2020
Gravid and COVID
… As early as February, when SARS-CoV-2 was spreading across the country but long before the virus was declared a national emergency, Sonia Hernández-Díaz, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public …