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“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 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 …
Graduate School of Design Class Day Speaker Danielle S. Allen
… Conant University professor Danielle S. Allen grew up in a large, “politically committed” extended family in 1970s Southern California. “Almost as if with mother’s milk,” she … A massive increase in income and wealth inequality and rise in incarceration rates, an acceleration of the climate …
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
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
Home of the Humanities
… she sketches an alternate history, one that competes with the common account that the Byzantine empire’s inhabitants … than their contemporaries in their use and understanding of the sciences. Mavroudi reports that Ptolemy’s Geography , … help. The new library building cost $18 million and comprises 43,000 square feet. The museums, closed for …
Issue: May-June 2008
New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA
… The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
Purse Strings of the Heart
… Odysseus struggled to resist the Sirens. Adam Smith warned of dangerous passions for … irrational. But to Laibson, credit-card borrowing is no surprise. His behavioral model, which applies "hyperbolic …
Issue: September-October 2001
How America Grew
… Human existence changed irreversibly after the innovation of indoor plumbing and municipally supplied … moves forward at an engaging pace. Nonetheless, a tension arises when he turns to the present, in the last fifth of the …
Issue: May-June 2016
The Art of Lighting and Sound Design
… The Act One finale of In the Heights is the stuff of theater technicians’ dreams andnightmares. After a … A Roman candle sound soars while a corresponding pink light rises over the actors’ faces. Everything is perfectly, …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Sorcery of Seedpods
… In his 2001 book The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan declared that the existential dilemma of a plant is its immobility. “It can’t pursue a mate, or a …
Issue: January-February 2014
Yesterday's News
… two freshmen propose inserting a huge crossbar between the two chimneys of the Boston Elevated Railway’s powerhouse, near the … Central Kitchen has installed automatic milk-pouring machines in four House dining halls, the Bulletin’ s …
Issue: January-February 2021
Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
… Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, … later, this February 3, he returned to campus and discussed the newest innovation in technology—artificial intelligence. … frontier of technology. During the question period (a reprise of an earlier such session on campus ), students …
Title IX and the Critique of the Neoliberal University
… The debate around sexual-assault policy, at Harvard and … a more limited role for universities in the private lives of students, and worry, during a moment of national outrage at college sexual violence, that …
The Mirage of Knowledge
… ignorance and unreason in American public discourse—and then he watched it come to life all around him, in ways … be treated as equally serious. And they rejected professional know-how, he says, with such anger . That shook … is bone-deep in the American character, as much a part of the nation’s origin story as the founders’ Enlightenment …
Issue: March-April 2018