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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
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 …
New England: "More than Changing Leaves and Blizzards"
… Okay, yeah. There are changing leaves in late fall, blizzards in winter, … two things we don’t like, it’s people who are intolerant of other peoples’ cultures, and the Dutch (Austin Powers, … for our purposes here we’re excluding New Yorkers in favor of the true Patriots—they really need a pick-me-up after …
Yesterday’s News
… 1922 “The Reds in America,” an article published in the Boston … Transcript, charges that the University is a “hot-bed” of radicalism, that “no institution of learning in the … reports that the basic cost of a Harvard education has risen only 3 percent above the pre-war cost, versus 39 …
Issue: September-October 2017
Music in the Air
… Among the free performances sponsored by the Harvard music … soprano and artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the production features music, songs, and texts that make contemporary the life and work of Josephine Baker. The American-born Baker was a …
Issue: March-April 2019
Back Bay Delights
… that belies a wildly enthusiastic reaction to its food. The large space is clad in shades of dove gray and walnut brown, with nearly floor-to-ceiling … onto Massachusetts Avenue, not far from the Harvard Club of Boston. Chandeliers and table candles make the plethora …
Issue: March-April 2011
Marian Wright Edelman Spoke Up for Children
… In her address to the class of ’93, Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, eschewed levity and …
Steven Spielberg: “I Was in a Celluloid Bubble”
… “It's an honor and a thrill to address this group of distinguished alumni and supportive friends and kvelling … director Steven Spielberg, Ar.D. ’16, speaking to the Harvard graduates and their friends and families who … hatred end?’ but ‘How to begin?’” Spielberg connected the rise of anti-Semitism to that of Islamophobia, and prejudice …
Funniest Pages
… Contrary to the romanticized image of a solitary artist forging … in his introduction. “It had the feel of a rogue enterprise, and the competition to top each other was fierce. You …
Issue: November-December 2010
Can Science Justify Itself?
… And most expect any attack on those values to come from the far right: from foes of progressivism, from anti-science religious movements, … proven excellent clickbait, he observes, and are on the rise in number and popularity—and editors have spotted this …
Issue: March-April 2018
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
Harvard Portrait: Russell Phillips
… During his three-decade career in primary care, professor of medicine Russell S. Phillips has studied palliative care, … lower-back pain, sexually transmitted infections, mindbody therapies, and computer-based medical records, among other …
Issue: July-August 2012
“Debate and Doubt”
… At the kick-off of Harvard Law School’s bicentennial celebration last week, Dean John F. Manning took the stage in Sanders Theatre and, in reverse order of their …
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
… In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring … page 70). As the committee--faculty members, members of Harvard employee unions, students, and … employer in Boston. Some of the workers whose wages will rise may live in families above the poverty line. Some of …
Issue: November-December 2001
A High-Priced Product
… Readers of this hefty work will frequently think of Samuel Johnson … Paradise Lost: "None ever wished it longer than it is." But they will, even as they grumble, be grateful for the care … The two go together, of course. As the endowment rises above $19 billion, and one fund drive begins before …
Issue: September-October 2001