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Sustainability Made Simple
… The forms taken by human shelters are changing as architects … more compactly, and focus attention on the essential beauty of the natural world. This article appears in two parts; … “Driving through a blizzard,” he adds, “was a form of sport.” Now there’s just not that much snow. The lake …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Missing Middle
… rightly concerned about free speech at this University and others, but the current national discussion has overlooked the harmful effects of its own presence. A disproportionate focus on our campus can exacerbate the effects of echo chambers. When Harvard is used to score points in …
Issue: July-August 2024
The State of Harvard’s Arts and Sciences
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Hopi Hoekstra and colleagues issued their annual financial and other reports during an Election … also broaching other matters—among them, the desirability of students actually attending the classes in which they are …
Building Community
… in late October’s wide-ranging conference at Harvard on the future of research universities—design and architecture, digital … event, which took place in the same month University officials released designs for a six-story building in …
On Caregiving
… teaching hospital, I interviewed a husband and wife, in their early twenties, who had recently experienced a truly … On their wedding night, in their first experience of sexual intercourse, a malformed blood vessel in the … and hope for the future. He smiled at me in a surprised and patronizing way; then he said I was right to …
Issue: July-August 2010
Wrangling about Reefs
… Tucked away at the periphery of the Harvard Museum of Natural History … among other personal losses. The coral reef debate comprises a seemingly endless series of both marvelous …
Issue: May-June 2005
At Home with Harvard: Back to School
… 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 … 6 a.m. , and you…will…row. Some mornings, you watch the sunrise from Lamont Library after hitting your study groove …
Bao Luong
… day in 1927, 18-year-old Nguyen Trung Nguyet took advantage of her parents’ absence to travel alone to Saigon, covering the 160 miles from Rach Gia by sampan, boat, and train. She … national funeral for a noted reformer. Growing up at a time of strict sex segregation, when few girls received an …
Issue: March-April 2011
Magnetically Lifted Spirits
… Near the end of the first act in Mozart's Così Fan Tutte, after the two … bodies at her feet. "Very soon now you'll see, by virtue of magnetism's power," she declares, "the end of this …
Issue: May-June 2004
Li Shizhen
… sher-jen) is virtually a household name in China. A kind of patron saint of Chinese herbal medicine, widely lauded by historians and … named him one of his personal heroes, and he has been the focus of comic books, popular songs, TV dramas, and …
Issue: January-February 2010
Lifestyle and Long COVID Linked
… a healthy lifestyle protect against long COVID? An analysis of data from the long-running Nurses’ Health Study II by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers finds that among these mostly …
Christopher Gore
… In this spot stood Gore Hall...Built in the year 1838...Named in honor of Christopher Gore...Fellow of the College...Overseer...Benefactor...Governor of the …
Issue: November-December 2001
Both Sides Now
… Tomiko Brown-Nagin is a legal historian of what she calls “one of the most celebrated social movements of all time—the …
Issue: January-February 2022
American Ratification
… still muddling in recession; a government rendered inept by the complete collapse of the Senate as a serious institution of deliberation or a … story with a profound respect for the political enterprise and intellectual commitment that made ratification a …
Issue: January-February 2011
Five Questions with Brian D. Farrell
… Brian D. Farrell is the Lehner professor for the study of Latin America and a … Times . Ecologists and evolutionary biologists were surprised by how conservative the evolution of these ecological …