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On the Tip of Your Tongue
… In the diagram shown here, connections are drawn between words … language. In a test designed to take users to the tip-of-the-tongue state (where they are at the edge of being able to recall a word), people had an easier time …
Issue: May-June 2010
Secrets of Longevity: New Evidence from Rockfish
… A new study of longevity in rockfish, which includes some species that live more than 200 years and others that live fewer than a dozen, identifies a set of … sense, he adds, since (as noted) long life is thought to arise principally as a side effect of delayed maturation, …
Danish Realism, and the Reality of the Flesh
… Two new exhibits at the Bruce Museum, in Greenwich, Connecticut, explore Danish … paintings and scientific imaging that help unveil the truth of what we can see. At the core of “On the Edge of the World: Masterworks by Laurits …
Issue: March-April 2020
The Way We Eat Now
… bottled water—came from McDonald's. Spurlock recorded the results on camera for his film Super Size Me, which won … year's Sundance Film Festival. Super Size Me is also a kind of shock/horror movie, as viewers see the 33-year-old … over-responds to the spike in glucose—a more rapid rise than a hunter-gatherer's bloodstream was likely to …
Issue: May-June 2004
Ghosts in the Yard
… Richard Lawrence Robert Crowder, M.P.A. ’07 Kennedy School of Government, delivers the Graduate English Oration titled "Ghosts in the Yard" for … which pervades this place, and which can make us each rise to the call of our ghosts. For me, that vocation is the …
Harvard College Term Bill Rises 3.5 Percent to $54,496
… Harvard College announced today that the 2012-2013 academic year term bill will be $54,496—an increase of 3.5 percent, or $1,844, from $52,652 in the current year. … increase than that imposed during the recent past (a rise of $1,855, or 3.8 percent, from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011, …
In Defense of Academic Freedom
… “These are complicated days,” said Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt professor of physics, on Tuesday morning, as he welcomed the audience …
Kiefer Sutherland Named Man of the Year
… Joining an A-list cast of Pudding Pot alumni such as Robert De Niro and Stephen Spielberg, actor Kiefer Sutherland has been named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year. Known best for his award-winning role as …
Sheryl Sandberg Preaches the Value of Honesty
… “ The most important thing I can tell you is to open … speaker, Sheryl Sandberg ’91, M.B.A. ’95, chief operating officer of Facebook since 2008 and author of the 2013 bestseller …
Addressing Conflicts of Interest
… As the academic year ended, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … of determining what kinds of potential conflicts may arise. Based on experiences at other schools, they said, 90 …
Issue: July-August 2012
Portrait of a Pioneer
… On February 11, a portrait of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was scheduled to be unveiled on the wall of the Faculty Room in University Hall, where males greatly …
Issue: March-April 2002
An Interstellar Ribbon of Clouds in the Sun’s Backyard
… A 9,000-light-year-long ribbon of matter undulates through our sun’s interstellar … made of hundreds of different clouds of dust and gas—the largest such structure of interacting nebulae yet … in the map—and that was when the Radcliffe Wave surprised them. The discovery also raises new questions. “The …
Games of Trust and Betrayal
… but about how outcomes came to be,” says associate professor of public policy Iris Bohnet of the Kennedy School of Government. “That doesn’t strike anyone but an economist—like me—as a surprise.” Game theory, as conceptualized by conventional …
Issue: March-April 2006
All of Harvard's a Stage
… From backstage , I can hear only the rustle of papers and the clatter of metal chairs against the hollow risers. Through the cracks in the set, I peer first with one …
Neil Patrick Harris Is Man of the Year
… Whether portraying a lovable child doctor on Doogie Howser, … center-stage with brilliant song and dance as host of the Tony Awards, or getting laughs as the womanizing … Neil Patrick Harris—today named the Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year—knows how to put on a show. “We are pleased to …