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Governing in the Smartphone Era
… responses, especially when multiple calls came in about the same incident, or one call involved multiple incidents. This made it nearly impossible for officials to tease out why some city residents waited longer for aid—a matter, potentially, of life and death. The city had all the information it …
Issue: November-December 2014
Controlling AI Influence over Consumers
… that adjust product pricing based on what they know about a buyer—could, in some circumstances, inappropriately take advantage of the public, argue a pair of Harvard Law School scholars who are assessing the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Julian Schwinger, the Singularity
… In the fall of 1945, at Los Alamos, New Mexico, scientists working on the Manhattan Project heard Julian Schwinger deliver a … a new accelerator he had designed. Mallinckrodt research professor Roy Glauber, then just 20 years old, his …
Is Climate Change Ruining Fall?
… New England displays some of the most dramatic fall color in the world. The crowds of … are checked by cold weather. But as temperatures rise, Primack adds, they’ll become more abundant and spread …
Restaurants Rampant
… In 2003, Ferran Adrià appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, becoming only the … in eating as an experience,” Norton explains. “There’s a rise in top restaurants that cater to people wanting not …
Issue: July-August 2011
The Evolutionary Case for Exercise
… What role does exercise play in shaping the health of our brains and bodies? For Lerner professor of biological sciences Daniel Lieberman , the answer …
The Senior Alumni
… Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Theodore R. Barnett ’41, of Stowe, Vermont, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2018
Global Groceries
… ), named for Armenia’s largest lake, sits at the epicenter of Watertown’s Armenian community. The … are now behind the counters almost every day. They gab, often in Armenian, with friends and steady customers, and …
Issue: September-October 2016
Video: The "High Set" in Tennis
… In this video , Bruce Wright, volunteer assistant coach of Harvard men's tennis, and head men's coach Dave Fish describe and illustrate the concept of "high set" that they are introducing to the Harvard team, …
Issue: May-June 2010
Glaeser: Time to Rethink the Mortgage Interest Deduction
… Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser, who directs the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, has been using the Boston Globe as a forum for critiquing government …
Carved in Stone at the Post Office
… Brian Burrell's The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, Oaths, and … Our Nation (Free Press, $26) is an engaging omnium-gatherum of words to reckon with, ranging from the solemn creed of the Elvis Presley Impersonators Association to the …
Governance Reform from Below?
… The last item discussed at the May 7 Faculty of Arts and … body like the proposed senate. Top-Down Reform Two crises in the first decade of this millennium prompted the …
“The Opportunity to Make a Difference”
… During the September 21 , donor-focused launch events for The Harvard Campaign, Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07 (co-founder of Microsoft, and co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates …
Remaking Paradise
… When Hurricane Marilyn smashed through the fish tanks, underwater observatory, and kitschy collection of T-shirt and souvenir shops known as Coral World on St. … He describes the day when, as they sweated over drawings, machines buzzed, and crews hammered away, someone saw whales …
Climbing the Wickersham Wall
… and graduate student Chris Goetze ’61, [Ph.D. ’70,] (at 23 the “old man” of the group)—set out to conquer a previously unscaled … burned down years ago, so there was no chance for a reprise dinner this past June. As another part of our reunion, …