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Harvard at 400
… Imagining the future —however risky it is to make predictions—can be a … starts with an idea. Every creation springs from a vision of something that does not exist, but might. Such first … force, is essential. Holding in mind a detailed image of a wished-for outcome can be a powerful step in creating …
Issue: September-October 2011
Catching Some Rays: Good for Your Heart?
… CBS News has the story on a new study, led by Harvard School of Public Health professor Edward Giovannucci, that found that men with low …
Yesterday’s News: Headlines from Harvard’s History
… 1921 The Bulletin’ s editors note that Harvard has dedicated no new buildings for several years, due to the high cost of construction. With a bumper crop of freshmen expected, existing facilities will likely be …
Issue: July-August 2021
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
Side Missions, Engines, Joysticks
… its viewers for about two hours, a video game more likely offers a 10- to 40-hour ride—roughly comparable to a book. Furthermore, unlike other entertainment media, video games are … May ’99, head writer for the Assassin’s Creed games, one of the world’s best-selling franchises. “We are not …
Issue: September-October 2013
Curiosity Changes the World
… a lively time at a place like Harvard. Students are back, of course—some new and some returning. But there is another reason for the buzz of excitement around campus as the leaves start to turn and …
Issue: January-February 2020
Allston Anticipation
… a letter to Allston residents reporting that all but one of Harvard’s marketable retail properties in the community had been rented. She wrote also that an … “work team has been gathering information from a range of sources both inside and outside the University to help …
Inner Senses
… a live California two-spot octopus back to his lab for the first time, he was nervous. Octopuses are highly … that they do with their arms.” The 35-year-old associate professor of biology wondered what those arms were doing. “I … The chemical detectors in octopus receptor cells are comprised of five subunits, which can be combined in different …
Issue: March-April 2023
Energy-Saving, Low-Cost Air Conditioning
… to 10 new air-conditioning units deployed every second for the next three decades. But traditional AC systems are far … from incoming air—a process that requires huge amounts of energy and utilizes chemicals with a greenhouse effect up … needs in poorer countries like Indonesia and India could rise to become as much as 75 percent of their current total …
Issue: November-December 2022
William Brooks Cabot
… miles from friends and family, and immensely happy. "The night was clear, there was a white frost, and the … slept through as well as I," he wrote near the end of a 70-day journey in 1905. "The northern lights were … Cabot was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, but lived much of his life around Boston. He made his fortune designing …
Issue: September-October 2001
Granny Talk
… Edward Everett entered Harvard at the age of 13 and took his degree 200 years ago at … he was known as a formidable orator. He was valedictorian of the class of 1811 and spoke on “Literary Evils.” That was …
Issue: May-June 2011
Performing for the President
… evening an “Arts Prelude” to President Claudine Gay’s official installation shook Sanders Theatre with a whirlwind of energetic, and sometimes … To dance in a light she never got to [slower] I meet my surprised face glinting back through industrial windows A memory …
A COVID-19 Day at the Beach
… Beaches in and around Boston this year are drawing lines in the sand by restricting activities and, in many cases, … On Cape Cod and other coastal spots north and south of Boston, many municipalities, like Manchester-by-the-Sea … parking lots to residents only, although Wingaersheek Beach offers some non-resident parking spots daily on a …
Issue: July-August 2020
The Comic-Book Storyteller
… in Manhattan’s Times Square is like watching a queen visit the heart of her realm. The staff know her, of course. She looks up a … was awesome, actually,” she says. “I was pleasantly surprised.”) and became a management consultant, specializing in …
Issue: May-June 2019
Unsettled Arrivals
… "I don’t need music, Kit . I need the sound of silence,” Dad says. He says “silence” in a way … two lanes become four. The mountains no longer rise up around you; vehicles are forced into the depository …
Issue: November-December 2012