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Sandeep Robert Datta and Venkatesh Murthy: Why is Smell Such a Mystery to Scientists?
… Robert Datta discuss what scientists know about our sense of smell, and what big mysteries remain. Topics include … experimental approaches to understanding olfaction, and the role of artificial intelligence in olfactory research. For more …
First-year Double-talk
… It is one of the paradoxes of the Harvard experience that the admissions process demands …
Issue: September-October 2002
Presidential Portrait
… On the chill, blustery afternoon of May 1, a piece of Harvard’s … instead focusing on a few points about the university enterprise and the importance of the faculty. (The role of the …
Issue: July-August 2006
A Novel Take on Eternal Life
… to be immortal. In her new novel, Eternal Life, this is the problem facing Rachel, a 2,000-year-old Jewish woman who … at the Second Holy Temple: in exchange for the survival of her sick son, she gives up her own death. “What reasons … being alive?” Rachel asks herself over the centuries. None of them—to love God; to serve others; to feel joy, to build …
Issue: January-February 2018
Significant Contributors to Society and Scholarship
… Since 1989, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has awarded … Dutch art. She is the author Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and the Market (1988) and The Vexations of …
Harvard President Drew Faust to Step Down in 2018
… Drew Gilpin Faust, who assumed office as Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on July 1, 2007 … , announced today that she would conclude her service at the end of the next academic year, June 30, 2018. Her … appropriate to a complex, multibillion-dollar enterprise operating in the twenty-first century. The announcement …
Willing to War
… Past psychological research has shown that when it comes to the question of war, cognitive biases in the way people process … and easy victory. Such overconfidence, explains Renshon, arises from three optimism biases: exaggerating one’s …
Issue: May-June 2007
Picasso at War
… a woman cradling a child, her neck twisted downward toward the little figure, whose arm reaches up to cup her cheek. Beside them he drew studies of the woman’s hand, trying to capture the way her fingers … male figure on the other side, chest and legs devoid of detailing: a nude self-portrait. The two sides of the …
Football: Harvard 56, Princeton 39
… This was one for the books. On a perfect football Saturday at the Stadium, … the second half and seemed to be cruising to its fifth win of the season. Then, within a span of 10 minutes, a furious Princeton rally cut the Crimson …
Frances Perkins
… 1904, LL.D. ’29, asked Frances Perkins to be his secretary of labor in 1932, she drove a hard bargain: she would accept … and large-scale public-works programs to help victims of the Depression, along with federal minimum-wage and …
Issue: January-February 2009
Rebecca Henderson
… why large companies find it difficult to change. One part of the answer is the phenomenon of “overload”—essentially, the failure to spend time …
Issue: November-December 2011
Orators Three
… Each year, three student speakers address the Commencement crowd in Tercentenary Theatre: the student “parts” that are an essential feature of Harvard’s graduation traditions. Here Harvard Magazine … politics of urban agriculture. Ending up at NYU was a surprise—he expected to play football in college and NYU does …
Harvesting Autumn at Ward’s Berry Farm
… Maybe it’s the jolly rotundity, or that splash of orange and cozy look … seasonal produce they sourced from nearby organic enterprises, like Tangerini’s Farm, in Millis, and Langwater Farm, …
Issue: September-October 2022
Cambridge 02138
… much more purple than anything else. You don’t find nearly the polarization suggested by the media, or, frankly, by scholars”—to be a correct characterization of today’s political reality. However, this reality goes … to remove her feeding tube (McConnell v. Beverly Enterprises). The original judge on the case had to be replaced …
Issue: March-April 2006
John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” Stirs Controversy at Metropolitan Opera
… The Metropolitan Opera in New York City, yielding to what … “unimaginable pressure” from Jewish groups that disapprove of the controversial 1991 opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by composer John Adams ’69, A.M. ’72, has …