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Beyond the Genome
… During the past few decades , most scientific research into the causes of autism has been focused on the structural wiring of the … in recent years, as the number of cases has continued to rise (while the genetic pathways have remained elusive), …
Issue: January-February 2008
Off the Shelf
… Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. … guide (the first example is the notorious simultaneous rise of human births and the stork population in late …
Issue: July-August 2015
The Future of Tuberculosis
… Every year, tuberculosis —a preventable and often curable disease—kills about 1.5 million people around the world. The evasive bacterium infects one in three people worldwide. While most of the two billion people who carry it will never know, one …
A Hundred Years of Music
… When the Harvard University Band parades through Harvard Square … the band’s hundredth anniversary, the usual contingent of 60 student musicians will likely swell to more than six … Today the University Band is an extensive musical enterprise consisting of a football band, a concert band, a wind …
Harvey Mansfield: The Bradley Prize and a Critique of Harvard
… Kenan professor of government Harvey Mansfield , a scholar of … who has long expressed his criticisms of what he sees as the prevailing culture and beliefs of Harvard and other … of free representative government and private enterprise that has enabled the American nation and, in a larger …
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… In the Blood, by Charles Barber ’85 (Grand Central, $29). … Barber, a riveting storyteller, recounts the invention of a revolutionary way to prevent traumatic death from … or even neglect from its Habsburg rulers in Vienna,” giving rise to a “restless underlying resentment and a skittering …
Issue: July-August 2023
The Pathfinder Nation
… During the past few years, we seem to have observed the fiftieth anniversary of everything. Through media and memory, we have again been … life-giving connections between farm and market, enterprise and capital, hope and future had been severed. …
The Price of Healthy Eating
… Anecdotally , the cost of a healthy diet—rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, … nuts, for example—has been assumed to be higher than that of a diet consisting of unhealthy processed foods. Now …
Issue: March-April 2014
“The Measure of the Novel”
… ’12, who has been attending this year’s Norton Lectures by the Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, filed … on September 22 for Sanders Theatre to open for the first of the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, all the talk was of the lecturer, Orhan Pamuk: "Have you read any of his …
The New Monopoly
… Market concentration , the economist’s term for how much an industry is dominated by one or a few firms, touches ever more aspects of American life. From the obvious (the Amazons and Walmarts … income going to labor has fallen in tandem with the rise of “superstar” firms: situations where a small number …
Issue: March-April 2019
An Expansive Vision for the Future of Teaching and Learning
… The Harvard Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force … from the pandemic pivot to remote instruction in the spring of 2020 and through the following academic year, released … activities. As the task force noted, many of the new enterprises and instructional channels focusing on online learning …
Taste of Provence
… This could be where a trend starts: Sel de la Terre, hard by the site of Boston's Big Dig, offers eight first courses, all priced at $8, and seven …
From the Archives: The Market-Model University
… More than two decades ago—before the Great Recession caused states to slash funding for … before the gold rush into social media lured a generation of students into computer science and engineering; before … working alone. Ethical debates in medicine, environmental crises, legal issues involving the history of race relations: …
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… Wellesley for more than 25 years, reintroduces readers to the literature of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and many others. She keeps our eyes … so it is. Generously illustrated. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, …
Issue: November-December 2003
Amy Poehler Named Woman of the Year
… star and Boston-area native Amy Poehler will receive the Hasty Pudding Club’s 2015 Woman of the Year Award, honoring “a talented and hilarious actress whose brand of comedy fits so well with the Pudding’s own tradition of …