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Balkanizing the Web?
… Originally, the World Wide Web was envisioned as exactly that: a global vehicle for the unimpeded flow of information, without barriers, dams, blocks, filters, or … (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) data when the machines are idle. That way, he says, "computers all around …
Issue: November-December 2002
What Roman Ruins Reveal
… Geophysical proofs are not the only kinds of evidence Mitrovica marshals to illuminate the history of sea-level rise. One of his favorite examples comes from a fellow …
Issue: September-October 2016
Tom Hanks: Truth, Justice, and the American Way
… As prepared for delivery. Thank you. On behalf of all of us who have studied for two years at Chabot … State University, Sacramento, and forty-five years at the School of Hard Knocks, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree … of mighty rivers, if such a thing should be done and make machines that bend steel as easily as using our bare hands. …
Building Boom
… The University is on a building boom of sorts. The campus … and 1970s. Now, science facilities and housing are on the rise, fueled by federal biomedical research and the 1990s …
Issue: May-June 2005
Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty
… Harvard Magazine welcomed loyal and generous donors to the magazine to a private viewing of To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty , highlights from the collection …
All Eyes on China
… T minus two weeks to the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in China. Amid … "PSB [Public Security Bureau] personnel may conduct surprised [sic] inspection of our property without notification …
Amy Poehler Honored as Woman of the Year
… As a former long-time member and co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe, comedic actress … gave as good as she got at the annual Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year roast. “You know—amazing,” Poehler said, after …
Chemical Creativity
… The photographer Ansel Adams is best known for his legendary black-and-white landscapes of the American West: clouds billowing across the Sonoma … images in the solution, then shook them to dry, giving rise to a ritual that persisted even after film improved and …
Issue: January-February 2025
Historic Threads
… By the time the talented and shrewd Samuel Slater arrived in … Rhode Island, in 1790, the race to mechanize was on. Groups of carpenters and mechanics, funded by businessmen, were … that also led to the influx of immigrant workers, the rise of labor unions, widescale railroad infrastructure, and …
Issue: May-June 2020
Vita: Alexandre Dumas
… He was the son of a black slave and a renegade French aristocrat, … Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) when the island was the center of the world sugar trade. The boy’s uncle was a rich, … His son, the Dumas we all know, echoed the dizzying rise and tragic downfall of his own father in The Three …
Issue: November-December 2012
Vita: Alexander Hamilton Rice
… man who served as a faculty member and director and founder of the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration (1929-1952). His ultimate …
Issue: March-April 2013
Talking About Tipping Points
… While climate change is frequently discussed as a problem of gradual warming, numerous features in the global climate system are thought to be at risk of … renewable energy production, carbon emissions continue to rise. “When you find yourself in a hole, the first rule is …
Helen Mirren Named Woman of the Year
… Helen Mirren —best known for her Oscar-winning portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen and Emmy-winning role in the Prime Suspect series — will receive the Hasty Pudding Club’s 2014 Woman of the Year Award, honoring “a talented and renowned actress …
Bill Gates, Inside the Gates
… Walter Isaacson ’74, a member of the Board of Overseers and biographer of Apple’s Steve Jobs … Center. The Aiken Lab housed one of Gates’s favorite machines: a PDP-10 from Digital Equipment Co. It had been …
“A Moment of Absolute Moral Clarity”
… About perhaps no other public issue does President Drew Faust feel more … personally—than America’s history and continuing legacy of racial division. In the spring of 2003, when she was dean … once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. “History says, Don’t …