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The Solid Fluid
… beautiful objects by manipulating it while it flows. But there is something curious about glass. Molten glass, as it … glass.) When scientists want to understand the properties of glass--what makes it flow at one temperature and jam up … denser and slower to mimic glass cooling. “The behavior of single molecules in glass can’t be observed,” says …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard Sundered
… In a November Letter from Israel, chillingly titled “In the Cities of Killing” (adapted from Hayim Nahman Bailik’s 1904 poem … and other universities do when the next crisis inevitably arises? One suggestion—admittedly controversial—is to abstain …
Issue: January-February 2024
Grabbing Flu by the Neck
… Scientists may have found the Achilles heel of flu viruses. Researchers including Wayne A. Marasco, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and …
Issue: January-February 2010
Off the Shelf
… Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are … A preeminent medical ethicist confronts the problem of life-saving and useful technologies—“the most visible and … (Princeton, $27.95). As government bails out old enterprises (banks, General Motors), might it stimulate growth by …
Issue: January-February 2010
The Crimson Triumphant
… The past quarter-century was an era of prosperity for … 30 individual athletes won national titles. These were some of the era's memorable moments: November 16, 1986 . After an …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Shows Go On
… station, just after midnight on a Sunday and you’ll hear the thumping bass of hip-hop, the staccato pulses of rap, and the soulful … part of WHRB’s black music department, The Darker Side, comprise just a few hours of the station’s 24/7 lineup, which …
Issue: January-February 2021
At Home with Harvard: American Democracy
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
The Sorority Scene
… In the months since I joined a sorority, I've had a lot of explaining to do. "Why do you need an official group to decide who your friends are going to be?" …
Rising Risks with COVID Reinfection
… The risk of hospitalization, organ damage, and death rises markedly with repeat COVID-19 infection. Assistant professor of medicine Amy Barczak shared a Nature study that …
An Undergraduate Life in the Theater
… The Google Calendar listing the conflicts for cast members … fourth is in another play that demands he attend six hours of rehearsal each day next week. I squint at the slivers of white space among the rainbow of “unavailable” blocks, …
Issue: January-February 2015
True Crime
… Before Netflix-watchers debated whether Carole Baskin fed her husband to tigers in the … King, before Serial podcast sleuths investigated the murder of Hae Min Lee, and before the televised O.J. Simpson murder trial forever changed the way Americans thought of ill-fitting gloves—all the nation could talk about was …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard’s Endowment Outlook—Updated
… at 11:00 a.m. MIT reported an endowment investment return of 55.5 percent for fiscal 2021, and a 49.0 percent increase in the endowment’s year-end value, to $27.4 billion. Updated … increase in the endowment’s value, which has risen relatively slowly during the past decade, given …
Honoris Causa
… Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew … Jarvis Thomson. Moral philosopher and metaphysician, a professor of philosophy emerita at MIT. Doctor of Laws: Eminent moral …
Issue: July-August 2016
Volatility Spikes
… Investing in the stock market can seem like walking a tightrope above a financial chasm. But instead of balancing themselves against unforeseen risks, many … volatile, the volatility of randomly selected stocks has risen by 40 percent and the correlations among stocks—a …
Issue: May-June 2002
Museum-Hopping in Latin America and the Caribbean
… Whatever winds and whims may have blown you south of the border, any traveler in the Caribbean or Latin America … at times off-the-wall, so you’re bound to be happily surprised by whatever you encounter here. What next? Walk north …