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The Democracy of Everyday Life
… It started with a bully . “The noise bully,” Nancy Rosenblum calls him, a man who lived in her Cambridge loft building years ago and tormented the family next door … Winthrop’s argument. “The democracy of everyday life rises from the ground of day-to-day reciprocity and …
Issue: September-October 2016
Paths of Learning
… a testament to his energy, vitality, and ambition that, in the ninth decade of his life, the business school's Alfred Chandler '40, … emeritus, has written two new books. The volumes comprise a series entitled Paths of Learning: The Evolution of …
Issue: July-August 2002
When Code Meets Canvas
… Algorithms govern much of our lives today. They likely brought you to this article, will shape how you … at the Max Planck Institute’s Center for Humans and Machines , argued that generative AI, particularly large …
Harvard’s Hiring Freeze Continues
… wrote in a statement to faculty and staff on Monday, as the University prepares for up to $1 billion per year in … the statement, which outlines other potential repercussions of the federal government’s financial assault on the … 40 percent of the University’s annual operating budget—will rise from 1.4 percent to 8 percent. Garber notes that …
“Shoddy”: The Noun
… illustrated trek, Hanna Rose Shell guides readers through the history of the reprocessing of used clothing and textiles, … wool rags in what were christened “devils,” grinding machines equipped with sharp teeth. Recycled waste and other …
Issue: March-April 2021
Cancer-fighting Robots
… In the not-so-distant future, a new kind of robot, one of the … Science , Douglas described a method for creating tiny machines—roughly the size of a virus—out of strands of …
Issue: September-October 2012
Community Voices Rise in Harvard Square's Redesign
… “There have been many watershed moments in the history of … say in the future of the public space. … Community Voices Rise in Harvard Square’s Redesign … 1508 … Community Voices …
"Upon The Occasion of Your Graduation"
… Although—let us be right out front —there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has … the egg; Egg, yolk—your whole life. But the truth of your arrival, and what now follows, Is the truth of … homeless geese, I expect you to struggle into your sky, Rise, glide, wheel and dive, Sport with the wind and spin …
Issue: July-August 2002
It’s Complicated
… My first job out of college was in a small newspaper bureau in a … Ninth Ward. Our office, a squat former bank branch, sat on the main thoroughfare, Judge Perez Drive, named for an early … within Gen Z—and the new brand of conservatism on the rise among Harvard students—offers proof that campus …
Issue: September-October 2025
Rationality and Robots
… The Achilles heel of neoclassical economic theory has always … and save for retirement, that they won’t pay more for a cup of coffee—or a car, house, or share of stock—than it’s … examples, but computer scientists have also been developing machines to conduct automated negotiations, to reason about …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Return of History
… On the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, … Hetmanate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the rise of the modern Ukrainian national project in the 1840s, …
Issue: September-October 2023
The Mystery of Smell
… In the early weeks of the pandemic, as scientists and … brain is devoted to processing visual information. No surprise, then, he says, that from the beginning, modern … loss. After COVID-19, that number seems almost certain to rise. “The implications of this virus are huge,” Holbrook …
Issue: November-December 2021
Above and Beyond
… Beyondorders.org helps U.S. service members “rise above the call of duty” to aid Iraqi civilians. Tin-Yun Ho ’07 (’08) …
Issue: May-June 2008
Mark I, Rebooted
… The Mark I , the first programmable computer in the United … were made. Likewise in attentive attendance were dozens of the machine’s electronic descendants: smartphones, … long way in the last 70 years in thinking about what these machines can do,” he concluded. “I hope we’ve learned how to …
End of the Melting Pot?
… In 1986, after receiving amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, Jorge Montes began … manufacturing city outside Atlanta, because it reminded him of his hometown in Mexico. He and his wife could afford a … on immigrants have declined since the 1960s (with the rise of multiculturalism and “group rights”), immigrants …
Issue: May-June 2007