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The Long-term-care Puzzle
… thinking about it. But at some point, it touches nearly all of us. Demand for long-term care (LTC) — the medical and personal services people receive when … they're no longer able to care for themselves — is on the rise. Already, 60 to 70 percent of Americans who live to age …
Issue: July-August 2004
“A More Perfect Heaven”
… By his thirties , Nicolaus Copernicus had developed a theory that would turn the universe inside out, but for … that placed the sun, rather than the earth, at the center of the solar system. To friends and colleagues, he promised … his revolutionary ideas, yet decades later, perhaps wary of how those ideas would be received, he had published only …
The Way of the Long Strings
… To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one … —skills that develop through three or four hours of practice every evening. Photograph by Stu Rosner Then, that little matter of studying. Carter, a psychology concentrator, does her …
Issue: March-April 2003
In the Wake of Tragedy
… After the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami … word that they were all right, and share their accounts of the disaster and its aftermath. Several survivors shared … firsthand accounts; on March 19 (the most recent entry as of this writing), Yukari Fujita, M.T.S. ’96, posted an …
The Fingerprints of Diabetes…and Other Diseases
… If exercise is such a bellwether of health, and one’s metabolic profile reflects fitness and well-being, might the opposite …
Issue: May-June 2011
The Language of Emotion
… feeling “angry” or “distressed” or “dejected,” what do they really mean? Psychologists vigorously debate whether … concepts mean, and how people understand them, is part of Nook’s work with Leah Somerville, an associate professor … as a function of age, “was almost a complete surprise to us,” Somerville says. Nook had expected …
Issue: July-August 2018
Flavors of Latin America & the Caribbean
… So you have come to Latin America? Welcome to the land of some of the best food in the world! Although rice and beans are …
The Annotated Falcon
… Falconry is the hunting of wild quarry using a trained bird of prey. Its … report on the institute’s website points out, because “the rise of digital technology has made the encounter between …
Issue: March-April 2013
Arts and Engineering
… substantive academic planning at Harvard is going on all the time, including curricular innovations and faculty … Harvard Magazine spoke in January with Martignetti professor of philosophy Sean Kelly, dean of arts and … Kelly’s home department—the number of concentrators has risen dramatically. “When I arrived in 2006,” he says, “we …
Issue: March-April 2025
“The Future of Knowledge”
… During the September 21 launch of The Harvard Campaign , five … in Memorial Church for a panel discussion on “The Future of Knowledge.” An interdisciplinary lot, weighted more …
The Future of the Research University
… do research universities perform in our society? How can they reconcile the tension between liberal education and … be sorted out as information technologies enable new forms of teaching? Will residential research universities retain … Their appearance was not inevitable. Perhaps one is not surprised that state universities were started to do …
The Health Benefits of Owning a Pet
… Today is National Pet Day , and pet owners have another reason to celebrate: their pets are helping them live … to die,” said Harvard Medical School clinical assistant professor Beth Frates, citing the American Heart Association’s … In a talk yesterday at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Frates and Megan Mueller, associate …
The Origins of Egg Shape
… THE COMMON MURRE , a slender, northern-dwelling bird that … conical, a structure that, according to a popular theory of egg shape, might have evolved as an adaptation to the … spin in a tight circle, making them less likely to roll off a cliff and shatter. Other hypotheses link egg shape to …
The State of the Libraries
… Editor's note: Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton, the Harvard University Librarian since 2007, is retiring at … Archives of North America, as this collective enterprise is known, provides another example of how Harvard can …
The Early Days of the H-bomb
… If we build it, we lay the groundwork for acts of mass destruction and violence … don't build it, we leave ourselves vulnerable, at the mercy of less scrupulous nations and their acts of mass …
Issue: September-October 2001