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The Context: How the United States Can Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
… This is the ninth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
Should AI Be Scaled Down?
… A driving force of the competition between AI companies is the belief that … to emerge almost by accident,” Schwarz says, might also arise in smaller models “if you found a way of more directly …
Nepotism’s Impact in the Job Market
… The American labor market is not a meritocracy. Facing a deluge of resumes, cover letters, and interviews, firms don’t always select the most qualified candidate. Often, they instead choose an employee’s child. Matthew …
Issue: July-August 2023
The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899
… Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or … it pass—Dean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of 1999, held on December 14 in University Hall, an occasion …
A Diabetes Link to Meat
… Red-meat consumption is already linked to higher levels of colorectal cancer and cardiovascular disease (atherosclerosis, heart disease, and stroke). Now researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have added an increased risk of type …
Issue: January-February 2012
Being Alive Together
… On Friday, November 26, the lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim died, on the same day the Omicron variation of the COVID virus made headlines. That evening in New York, I had tickets to the new adaptation of Sondheim’s musical, Company . Although I teach …
Charley Butt Named Head Coach of Heavyweight Crew
… After a nationwide search, the Harvard department of athletics on August 13 named Charley Butt , coach of the Harvard men’s lightweight varsity crews for the past …
Faust: University Will Slow Pace of Construction in Allston
… Harvard will slow the pace of construction on its new Allston campus, … there will complete the foundation and installation of below-ground structural beams, tasks that were supposed …
Ouch!
… The social status of physicians rose in the eighteenth century as their understanding of disease grew apace. But effective new treatments or …
Issue: November-December 2006
The Bells Return to Russia
… The April 27 issue of the New Yorker featured an in-depth exploration, by Elif Batuman ’99, of the journey a set of church bells from Russia's Danilov …
“The Busiest Man in Poker”
… In 2003 , when a complete amateur named Chris Moneymaker won the $2.5-million first prize at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the game’s highest-profile event, Bernard Lee ’92 had already been playing poker …
Issue: November-December 2012
Probing Psychoses
… heard voices when no one else was around. Some were those of people he knew, others were unfamiliar, but all had the authentic mannerisms … involving psychiatric disease—formed in 2007 and comprises hundreds of investigators in 38 countries and nearly a …
Issue: July-August 2017
Two Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Engineering
… The National Academy of Engineering has elected 66 new … including genomics pioneer George M. Church, Ph.D. '84, of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and William W. George, … School (HBS). Church, professor of genetics and director of the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics at HMS, was …
Off the Shelf
… military. Having really negotiated with North Korea (see “ The Korean Nuclear Crisis ,” September-October 2003, page 38), and later served as secretary of defense, Ash Carter (now director of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and …
Issue: July-August 2019
Renewing the Houses
… In early April, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds released the results of a year-long review of the residential House system, …
Issue: July-August 2009