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Fracking’s Future
… Supplies of natural gas now economically recoverable from shale in the United States could accommodate the country’s domestic … of nearby residents’ fresh water. Serious problems have arisen in the past from failures to isolate the drilling …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Context: Simpsons Writer John Swartzwelder on Comedy
… This is the second post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
Stem-Cell Breakthrough in Treatment of Diabetes
… In what may lead to the biggest breakthrough in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes in three decades, Xander University Professor Douglas Melton and colleagues have figured out the …
Harvard Then and Now: The Decade Detailed
… … Value of Endowment, Average Salaries, and other statistics; 1990 and 2000. … 15 … Harvard Then and Now: The Decade Detailed … Harvard Then and Now: …
John Stilgoe on “Acute Observation”
… On a Tuesday in late July, as the last few students filter in from the evening swelter to … in the Carpenter Center, John Stilgoe, the Orchard professor in the history of landscape—and as unique a figure as there is on the …
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
“Hard Problems” in the Social Sciences
… Eminent scholars of the social sciences gathered at Harvard in April 2010 to … in their disciplines. But that was just the beginning of the conversation: the event organizers created an online …
Shifting Sands
… into an aardvark hole, blazing days and frozen nights: the Marshalls weren’t on a typical family vacation when they … and other helpers. Backed by Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, they were searching for the … ensuing decade, the Marshalls documented the daily lives of the hunter-gatherers in 40,000 photographs. Some will be …
Issue: September-October 2018
Don’t Pass the Bacon
… provides “clear evidence that regular consumption of red meat, especially processed meat [such as bacon or hot … to premature death,” according to lead author Frank Hu , professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health , in a press release. The study, published this week in The Archives of Internal …
A Walk through Garden in the Woods
… In this video, Al Levin ’56, M.D. ’60, shows off his passion for “doll’s eyes,” “Indian soap,” and other botanical treasures of New England. Levin, a semiretired cardiologist, is …
Issue: September-October 2009
"Days With the Family Realist"
… A doorknob on a chicken my grandmother said once, meaning useless, stupid. Most of us, most of the time, are that exactly. Not that we don’t have our …
Issue: July-August 2009
Putting the “New” in House Renewal
… When students vacate Winthrop House after Commencement 2016, they will make way for something new in the program of undergraduate residences: not just stem-to-stern … renovation, but significant fresh construction, in the form of a five-story addition to Gore Hall that will accommodate …
Issue: May-June 2015
Moorfield Storey
… 1866, stood up to speak in Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, the United States had just invaded the Philippines, … raced across the country, and he became the first president of the newly formed Anti-Imperialist League. Born into a … comfortable but not wealthy, Storey gained the sense of security he needed to chart an independent course. He …
Issue: July-August 2018
“An Extraordinarily Painful and Disorienting Time for Harvard”
… In an email message to the community, Alan M. Garber, who became interim president a week ago upon the resignation of President Claudine Gay , began by acknowledging “an … is striking. It arrives at a time when the present crises may be stimulating broader thinking about …
Bedside Manner
… Editor's note: Paul E. Farmer, M.D. '88, Ph.D. '90, is professor of medical anthropology in the department of social medicine. His title and … the other. One feels stilled in the presence of this enterprise. Even the Boston drivers, famously deranged, don't honk …
Issue: November-December 2003