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At Home with Harvard: The Real History of Women at Harvard
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard’s Arnold … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
The Poet of Needle Park
… The Poet of Needle Park : He is surely the most famous Harvard-educated heroin addict, and one of the most famous addicts anywhere: William Seward … in the quiet college town of Lawrence, Kansas. Having surprised everyone by living into his eighties, he sustained his …
The Power of Plants
… Often overlooked, plants are arguably the most indispensable inhabitants of the planet. They … art, and sparked scientific exploration. Empires have risen on their fruits, and fortunes have been made from …
More Than 29,000 Seek to Join the Class of 2013
… The number of applications to Harvard College broke previous … again this year: more than 29,000 students applied for the 1,658 slots in the class of 2013, the Crimson , the Boston Globe , and the University …
A Personal Genome Machine?
… In a laboratory behind the Science Center, researchers are working on a high-stakes project at the nexus of physics and biology. If all goes according to … a price in the hundreds or thousands, rather than millions, of dollars. The research, led by Rumford professor of …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Untold Story of Watercolors
… Watercolors are finally having their moment at Harvard Art Museums’ (HAM) new exhibition … “American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light.” Composed of 100 paintings usually kept in storage, the exhibit … changing interests and perspectives that are characteristic of our own moment,” said Abrams curator of drawings Joachim …
A "portion of the People"
… When Dale and Theodore Rosengarten sent out the invitations to their son's … friends and family members barely concealed their surprise, according to Dale (Rosen) '69, Ph.D. '97. "How could … everyone goes to church on Sunday? Where in the wilderness of South Carolina had we managed to find a Hebrew teacher?" …
Issue: January-February 2003
Gordon McKay
… paid cobbler Lyman Blake $70,000, mostly in promises, for the patent on a machine Blake had devised to stitch the uppers of shoes to the soles. Shortly afterwards, a group holding a … Cousins to whom he was close got nothing, to their surprise. His wife’s mother and sister were beneficiaries; the …
Issue: September-October 2007
The State of Unions
… “What do we do when we have the public on our side, when we have workers in motion, when … new center, led by Block and faculty director, Kestnbaum professor of labor and industry Benjamin Sachs. An evolution … expression of worker power,” according to Block—has risen dramatically during the past year. Yet corporations …
Rage, Reborn
… headline caught his eye: “Donald Trump Rages Against the Machine.” The chyron cheekily referenced Rage Against … the Machine, the 1990s rock band whose pioneering synthesis of hip-hop’s rhythmic lyricism and heavy metal’s … ideals. So, he says, “I did what any self-respecting pissed-off person would do: I wrote a snarky tweet about it.” Then …
Issue: July-August 2018
Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity
… late at night and all alone, I sat down to take control of the PDP-4 computer in the Center for Cognitive Studies on … humans could treat other humans as subhuman and electronic machines as human. Weizenbaum spent the rest of his career, …
Issue: July-August 2024
The Double Smack of Fishery Collapse
… Pollution of marine ecosystems threatens human health, but a graver concern is the collapse of global fisheries due to overharvesting. A … fishing as well as the impacts of sea temperature rise, ocean acidification, and coral bleaching. All those …
Issue: July-August 2018
Wisdom of the Sages
… The spring of 1933 was a trying time: the depths of the … for its adoption”—as opposed to trashing the public enterprise outright. In the fiercely partisan present, it is rare … origins in his new book, The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in the …
Issue: May-June 2021
“The Heart of Teaching”
… walked through Radcliffe Yard, where he today addressed the Graduate School of Education’s class of 2024, as a College freshman in 1961. … with technology. “Perhaps, working together with ‘smart machines,’” Gardner said, “we can accomplish what not even …
Last of the Seafarers
… “I fully expected to find a place where survival depends on the whims of the ocean, where the line between hungry and full rests … Hu ’16 in a progress report during his stay with the Bajau of Sampela, a seafaring community off the coast of Kaledupa …
Issue: May-June 2018