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The State of the Pandemic
… For all the havoc and death caused by the coronavirus during the … significant issues. How will humanity cope with the rest of this pandemic—and prepare to respond better to the … risk of severe illness is highest among the eldest. Risk rises steadily with age, doubling every five to six years, …
Issue: September-October 2021
Queen of the Hill
… The fact that a softball diamond is so much smaller than a … opponents’ batting average (.181). To no one’s great surprise, she was the unanimous choice for Ivy League Pitcher of … about Brown’s pitches. One of her lethal weapons is the rise ball, which doesn’t exist in hardball. Thrown fast, …
Issue: May-June 2012
"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
AI: The Course
… With the launch of its first overview course on artificial … produced by humans. From the first meeting of Gen Ed 1188: “Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative AI,” students …
Issue: May-June 2024
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
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 …
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
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
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
“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
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
… from 1971 to 1991 and again on an interim basis during the 2006-2007 academic year, faced the challenge of helping the University recover from the shattering … from a decade of stagflation, the stock market started to rise, and the endowments of elite universities began a sharp …
Issue: March-April 2024
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
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
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 …