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In the Wake of War [Footnotes]
… Because “In the Wake of War” has been excerpted from a longer text, the numbering of the footnotes that follow does not correspond precisely …
Issue: September-October 2010
Off the Shelf
… This learned, brilliantly written account explains how the European avant-garde came to captivate the American elite—as now embodied in that “hegemonic empire of art and money,” the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a … “10 dangerous trends” from “the mother of all debt crises” and the demographic time bomb (aging) to the “coming …
Issue: November-December 2022
The Context: The Gig Economy and the Future of Work
… This is the eighth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
The Character and Language of Pain
… The difficulty of treating pain flows in part from the difficulty people have in expressing and characterizing … bodily pain. “English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear,” she wrote, “has no words …
Issue: November-December 2005
Jodie Foster Honored at Radcliffe Day
… , Oscar-winning actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster received the 2025 Radcliffe Medal, reunited with an old college … “What I hope for people now is that they take the gloves off, and Harvard has shown that recently, and right on,” Foster said, acknowledging that the politics of the last decade have left many people feeling “worn out …
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Reshaping the Science Center
… A treasure buried in the basement of the Science Center for years, the Collection … offices will fill the second and third. Two stories will rise on top of a roof at the west end of the building, and …
Issue: January-February 2002
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
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 …
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
The Internet: Foe of Democracy?
… The Internet, argues Cass Sunstein, has had a polarizing … Although it has the capacity to bring people together, too often the associations formed online comprise self-selecting groups with little diversity of opinion, …
Issue: March-April 2009
Did Milk Build the Mongol Empire?
… When the sons and grandsons of Genghis Khan ruled the Mongol … How did this nomadic culture—the third such empire to rise from the arid grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe since …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Student Commencement Speakers
… The 372nd Commencement exercises on Thursday, May 25, will … taught science and math. From his aptly-named hometown of Athens, Georgia, Meadows improved his Latin, winning … exactly how they function: “I think they’re really nifty machines that can do amazing chemistry." When Chou applied …
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
Trailblazer in Space Science: The Legacy of Harvard's Ursula B. Marvin
… are people who revel in discovery and disperse dusty clouds of ignorance. Among them was Ursula B. Marvin, who teased solar system secrets … evolution from Apollo samples, and helped create the field of planetary geology—becoming a pioneer among women …
Issue: July-August 2023
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