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Reconstructing the Berlin Wall
… Massachusetts, novelist David Leo Rice ’10 sensed there was something lurking beneath the surface of things. Meandering through the aisles of his local video store, he was convinced the VHS tapes …
Issue: July-August 2025
Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes
… Microbes thrive everywhere, from gardens and kitchens to the harshest environments on the planet: under polar ice, in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the sea, in hot springs that spew acid. A single gram of … In fact, microbes have written it, forming rocks and giving rise to the oxygen in the atmosphere, and underpinning many …
Issue: September-October 2017
Why the Internet of Things Is Big Business
… For those outside Silicon Valley , the “Internet of Things” is a buzzword often associated with … Review (HBR) last fall. Sensors in gadgets, appliances, and machines generate an unprecedented and growing volume of …
Issue: July-August 2015
Behind the Curtain of A.R.T.’s “Evita”
… ballgown suspends in midair, center stage above a field of white flowers at the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T) revival of the … of a complex political figure who had an extraordinary rise and an extraordinary fall—and I would add the word …
The Future of Teaching
… two and a half pandemic semesters, instruction throughout the University first pivoted online, and then, after the summer of 2020, evolved into more sophisticated, engaging forms of Zoom-based teaching and some hybrid classes at the …
Issue: July-August 2021
Finding the Descendants of Enslavement
… “This work is doable. The family structures of the Harvard-affiliated slaves may … establish a political structure that would later give rise to apartheid). Later, answering an audience member’s …
The Neurobiology of Art
… When Monet's Impressio n Sunrise, a sensuous if sleepy painting of Le Havre's harbor, debuted in 1874, it enraged critics. They abhorred the loose brush strokes and unpolished lines …
Issue: July-August 2003
A Higher Degree of Responsibility
… economic inequality, climate change, and riven politics, the role of capitalist enterprise has come into question—at least when defined solely in …
Issue: March-April 2023
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
The Risks of Low-Dose Radiation Exposure
… Nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project is linked to higher rates of cancer among people who grew up near Missouri’s Coldwater … risk and low-exposure environmental radiation. Drinker professor of environmental epidemiology and physiology Marc …
Stop the Presses
… Harvard has gotten out of the printing business for the third time in its history. On … some necessary subsequent new hiring, the entire enterprise was down to between 50 and 60 people before the recent …
Issue: September-October 2002
At Risk
… Note to Readers: In light of the federal government’s announced intention to reduce … Harvard and Tishman Speyer, developer of the private enterprise research campus (ERC) in Allston, on leased University …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Future of Marriage
… When I came to Harvard in 1970, the model for many young people was the wedding in Love … to lose her to an early death, the University's Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister dubs the … increase in any demographer's view — and continues to rise. The cause? "We've pinned this one down to 'the pill' …
Issue: November-December 2004
“The Story of the Human Body”
… as 600 generations ago, our species lived as hunter-gatherers, says Daniel Lieberman , Lerner professor of biological sciences and chair of the department … more soft, processed food. Rates of osteoporosis are on the rise, a fact Lieberman attributes to declines in the …
The Gamut of Grades from A to B
… Slightly more than half the grades given to Harvard undergraduates during the past … and across course sizes," as highlighted for Faculty of Arts and Sciences members in a letter from Susan … sciences. These distinctions aside, grades generally have risen, with the mean increasing from 11.7 to 12.7 on …
Issue: January-February 2002