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What Can Be Used to Treat COVID-19?
… who runs a two-hour-and-thirty-minute marathon changing their sneakers and all of a sudden running a two-hour marathon,” said Harvard … differently.” As new variants emerge and cases rise around the country (particularly in the Northeast), …
Highlights of the Schlesinger Library Collection
… On May 15, 2007, Harvard Magazine hosted a group of loyal and generous magazine donors at The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced …
Does High Blood Sugar Blunt the Benefits of Exercise?
… Why do some people benefit more from exercise than others? The scientific literature on the subject points to … that these individuals can’t reap the full health benefits of aerobic exercise. The mystery of what causes that low response is more than a mere point …
Issue: September-October 2022
For the Love of Horses
… life and sports have long shaped Boston’s North Shore. In the late nineteenth century, that primarily agricultural … Merrimack River, evolved into “the premiere summer colony of affluent Bostonians, many of whom were avid equestrians,” according to a new exhibit …
Issue: September-October 2019
The Art of Paper
… collaborated on 14 such books with her husband, Marc Brown, the prolific children’s-book illustrator and author (best … health, death, divorce, travel, and more through the eyes of dinosaurs (e.g., When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to … Show (1995), that presented its subject in the guise of a vaudeville show starring zucchini, tomatoes, and other …
Issue: September-October 2012
The Cell’s Power Plant
… at Harvard for medical school and found that New England weather was like nothing he’d known growing up in Texas, he was … snow. When he arrived, she gave him a towel to dry off. Then, as she made dinner, the storm became a blizzard, … stress of physical exercise. This result didn’t surprise him, because of the numerous adaptive responses to …
Issue: November-December 2018
Keep Africa on Agenda, Rice Advises
… Although the U.S. government has momentous and urgent problems to confront—the reverberating shock waves of a global financial crisis; continuing conflicts in Iraq … into view during her discussion of China, a country on the rise as “a new power in Africa.” China’s concerns on the …
The Call of the Creeks
… “mucky, smelly, low-tide salt marshes.” A 2011 visit to the one at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on Cape Cod spawned a series of studies and oil paintings, the latest of which, Salt … with some full-color plates. Nature photography was on the rise even then, although it would be decades before …
Issue: September-October 2017
The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing
… (HUP) asked a book designer to create a T-shirt for its softball squad’s intramural season. The front of the shirt bore the expression r > g, signifying … cost of academic journals: their subscription prices have risen at triple the rate of inflation for the past three …
Issue: January-February 2015
Off the Shelf
… Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Forgotten Woman Who Discovered How … on ships. Journalist Garin tells the salty story of the rise of the industry. China Obscura, photographs by Mark …
Issue: July-August 2005
The Economic Agenda
… I have been privileged to watch the 10 previous presidential elections closely. In the course of each of them, it was said that this was a uniquely … to ask whether something more can be done to contain these crises and the threats to economic stability that they pose. …
Issue: September-October 2008
The Context: The Gig Economy and the Future of Work
… This is the eighth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
Map of the Milky Way
… maps are abstractions that show a city’s transit links and the connections among stations. To present information as … Medical School, has applied that concept to the part of the universe we call home by creating a subway map of the Milky Way. The map is an attempt to make our galaxy …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Party Line on Flab
… If obesity were a symbol of success, the United States would be a boomtown on the frontier of … foods, publicly funded exercise parks, bans on vending machines in schools, or regulation of food advertisements …
Issue: September-October 2002
The Art of Home Restoration
… Revival or a Victorian home to its period means balancing the preservation of the building’s historic fabric against the needs of modern daily living. Doing that well is an art that …
Issue: July-August 2010