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Rendering Dreams in Art
… An ice-cream store worker in Seoul wants to explore the Arctic. A Taiwanese nut-seller yearns for her happier days in primary school. In Beijing, a waiter dreams of becoming a chef and serving his grandmother a splendid … complex in Seoul. Although each unit in the generic high-rise buildings is identical, Yeondoo captures the …
Issue: May-June 2025
We Were Students Once...
… ...And Young. That’s the starting point of The Nancy Poems (Cirque Press, 2024), … purity—moving quietly about a square New England house that rises high among its elms above a wide, slow-flowing …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Rise of Color
… The 1934 Rockefeller Plaza exhibition of advertising and … page 84). The High Art of Photographic Advertising, a reprise of the 1934 exhibition, is on view at Baker Library, …
Issue: July-August 2010
Cambridge 02138
… highlighting “ Safe Streets ” (March-April, page 24) and the need to improve urban road design, and share Max … landscape worth exploring further: the rising popularity of electric bikes (e-bikes), and the hazards to both kids … about urban road safety. Fatal traffic crashes continue to rise in many American cities. In Washington, D.C., for …
Issue: May-June 2025
Engines of Change
… Has barbed wire ever been portrayed more glamorously than in the prettily framed advertising poster above for the I.L. Ellwood Company? A fence of the material, built to protect one’s livestock from … was complete. The editors of the exhibition sum up: “The rise of modern American capitalism, enabled by the expansion …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Rise of Vegan Culture
… Distant are the days of Annie Hall, when Woody Allen resigned himself to a plate of alfalfa sprouts and mashed yeast. Over the years, vegan … went from tasteless to trendy … 1514 … 1517 … 1539 … The Rise of Vegan Culture … article …
Issue: July-August 2017
From the Archives: The Professionalization of Ivy League Sports
… Although Ivy League athletics does not rise to the level of the powerhouse college sports conferences—with …
“This Beautiful Machine”
… Paola Arlotta is searching for the words to describe the clusters of cells, incubating quietly in a small room next to her … little experiments for us, sometimes silly ones, to surprise us in some way or to describe some concept. And then he …
Issue: July-August 2023
An Orphaned Sewing Machine
… it would be interesting to have students look at one of the landmark inventions of the nineteenth century—a sewing … A sphinx also produces riddles. Consider the little surprises and mysteries in the drawers (Images 17-19) . On the …
The Dark Side of Daylight Saving
… ’99 was paying close attention earlier this month when the U.S. Senate voted on the Sunshine Protection Act, which … next year. When senators approved the bill—to the cheers of many Americans who loathe the time change each fall and … to be at work at 9 a.m. (social time) in July, when the sun rises (sun time) around 5:30 a.m. —that early sunrise allows …
The Poco of Pocos
… The “Poco of Pocos” was Bernard Butekan, a … (“clo’man”), a Harvard celebrity, and the first in a series of rag dealers who played a surprisingly large role in the … fine but slightly worn clothing. The arrival of sewing machines in the 1840s also increased both the production of …
Issue: September-October 2021
Origins of the Urban Housing Crisis
… Across the United States, a chronic housing shortage grips many … in the making—and argues that its origins lie in the rise of “antigrowth politics” that began to take hold in the …
Issue: September-October 2022
Five Questions with Professor Jia Liu
… Assistant professor of bioengineering Jia Liu received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard in 2014 and then completed postdoctoral research at Stanford from 2015 … encourage them to explore research directions that can surprise me—and they often accept this challenge and produce …
Will Global Democracy Survive?
… “Ten years from now , there could be crises that make 2020 look like a garden party,” said Rockefeller professor of Latin American studies and professor of …
“The Perfect Sheet”
… Matt Gilmore sits straight up on the Zamboni’s elevated seat, his left hand guiding the … back. He leans leftward, his eyes trained on the few inches of space between the vehicle and the boards. Hitting the wall with the five-ton machine would be one of the worst things he could do, but his 14 years of …
Issue: March-April 2020