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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
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
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
For the Homies
… his poetry beginning in a room with his three younger brothers. If, after hearing his poetry, his siblings respect … that the work will echo and resonate beyond them.” Promises of Gold , released this spring, is already resonating beyond … at least my parents.” Even though Olivarez’s poetry arises in the imagined space with his brothers, and even …
Issue: July-August 2023
From Punk to the Silver Screen
… at Mademoiselle magazine in New York, Carter Burwell’s mother used to chase down writers like Truman Capote and Dylan … in Burwell’s indelible work as a composer for movies. Think of the snow-blind opening of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo … architecture.” Spurred by the looming recession and the rise of punk rock, Burwell chose music. He stayed at a loft …
Issue: January-February 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
Among the Brokenhearted
… Matthew Ichihashi Potts looks forward to brewing his signature pour-over coffee every morning. It’s a meditative moment—beans become … It “allows forgiveness to be a problem, it is unsurprised by how forgiveness confounds and confuses, it doesn’t …
Issue: May-June 2023
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
The Pleasure of Noticing
… At the Harvard Film Archive , the staff called it V-Day: the date of Agnès Varda’s arrival in Cambridge, for appearances at screenings of Faces, Places (2017) and Vagabond (1985), and for her …
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 Harvard Medalists of 2017
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced this year’s recipients of the Harvard Medal, awarded each year for extraordinary … honorees are: Henry N. Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49 , a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the …
The Healthy Tan
… A lotion that tans your skin without exposure to the sun and protects you against skin cancer sounds like the sort of miracle product you’d hear about on a late-night … important impact on public health. Melanoma has been on the rise during the past 30 years. It accounts for 62,000 new …
Issue: May-June 2007
Stamps of the Ivy League
… outstretched to shake with passers-by." Isn't it time that the Postal Service honors Brown and Cornell?" asks Thomas A. … works in the insurance industry. King sent Primus a packet of stamps featuring other Ivy League institutions to answer … Harvard has a 56-cent stamp based on the iconic statue of his nibs by Daniel Chester French, a stamp issued on the …
Issue: March-April 2004
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