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Gaming the Emotions
… stimulating, but in a new study led by Harvard psychiatry professors, one video game appears to help kids with severe anger problems gain control of their emotions. The pilot study at Children’s Hospital … that tracks heart rate as they play. If that indicator rises above resting levels--signaling that they’re …
Issue: January-February 2011
Behind the Scenes: Vita
… Vita debuted in the January-February 1977 issue of Harvard Magazine , a … should be better known, or to reveal little-known facets of well-known figures. The rules were simple: either subject …
Harvard Announces Hiring Freeze
… a temporary pause on staff and faculty hiring,” among other austerity measures, in response to “substantial … support for research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), on terms that could substantially affect … three days after the White House announced the cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and …
The Comeback Kid
… aplomb (as a child he’d briefly studied ballet) steps from the opening act of Balanchine’s Nutcracker. That incident occurred in … from his coevals on the men’s hockey team, but it’s a sign of the sheer oddity of Keenan’s adventures that it would …
Issue: July-August 2016
From Hull House to the White House
… On factions, elections, and productive disagreement in the building of American community As the first generation of Puritans … points of view. From that awareness can—not must, but can—arise a degree of toleration that makes differ-ences …
Live Jazz in the Seaport
… Kick off Labor Day weekend with the sweet, Mozambican-infused music of Albino Mbie —and other artists—at the Boston Jazz Fest …
Issue: July-August 2019
Making the Public Record Public
… librarians are tasked with protecting books. But over the past decade, Harvard Law School (HLS) librarians have sent tens of thousands of books to the literary guillotine, severing their spines …
Government's Deficit Spending
… A deficit at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) that in October was … is among the lowest of any Harvard degree program, and has risen only 3.9 percent annually on average for the last five …
Issue: July-August 2002
A Rosetta Stone for Earthquakes
… Istanbul , a city of 14 million people and a crossroads of cultural exchange dating back millennia, may also be … where Turkey’s next major earthquake strikes. Cities along the North Anatolian Fault, which stretches from eastern …
Issue: November-December 2017
“The Time Is Now”
… “I’m really here today, not just as the president of Harvard, but also as the child of immigrants,” Lawrence Bacow said Friday, joining nearly a …
The Straight Skinny on String (Theory)
… Courtesy WGBH Physicists' quest for the "theory of everything," now focused on string theory, poses unusual problems of imagination and visualization, even for specialists. …
Issue: November-December 2003
Hats of Their Own
… Day duty at 6:15 a.m . While her male colleagues—in their top hats—entered Tercentenary Theatre “without even … she recalls, the guards kept her back until the gates officially opened to the public at 6:45 a.m. That never … it, she has waltzed into the Yard ever since. A version of that hat, developed by Sinsabaugh and Boston milliner …
Issue: May-June 2013
Reworking the Workplace
… late January by Clean Slate for Worker Power , a project of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. This is not just an academic problem, the report argues: in an era of flat wages and extreme … with the premise that the United States faces two linked crises: economic and political. “It would take an Amazon …
Issue: March-April 2020
“Feelings Ought to Be Investigated”
… too big to do it anymore,” says Deidre Lynch, Bernbaum professor of literature since 2014. “The problem is that the materials we use in Houghton Library … been cast, most famously by the critic Ian Watt, as “the rise of the novel”—a set of steady developments toward the …
Issue: January-February 2017
“Eisenhower 2.0”
… ’53 and Linda Cabot Black ’51 biked around Cambridge during their Radcliffe years, but they never met until last November, while logging upwards of 20 miles a day on a cycling tour of the scenic East Coast … seaboard. Advocates and city planners both report seeing a rise in bike use across the country, especially in urban …
Issue: March-April 2010