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Off the Shelf
… A Synthesizing Mind, by Howard Gardner, research professor on … for his ambitious project. Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny, by Debora L. Spar, MBA …
Issue: September-October 2020
NFL Referee Ron Torbert Makes the Tough Calls
… Football League (NFL) referee who was crew chief at the 2022 Super Bowl. “TV doesn’t show the game the way I like to watch it. TV follows the ball. As an official, I want to follow everything else—if you are … fitness standards, enforced by an annual exam, continue to rise. “We are required to be athletes,” he explains; an …
Issue: November-December 2022
Cheating the Reaper
… detailed instructions about how much to take, and when. They have been less able to provide detailed dosage … risk, but it’s been unclear just how much different levels of exercise might extend our lives. Now, a study coauthored … five days a week—gained 3.4 years. Lee was somewhat surprised that even small amounts of movement made such a …
Issue: March-April 2013
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
… Sometime in the mid-1980s, comics, a centuries-old art form, became legitimate. Prompted by a sudden influx of adult-themed and thematically heavy works like Art … ’08 learned as much while researching True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee (2021), a biography of the Marvel …
Issue: March-April 2022
The State of the Final-Club Debate
… Last Friday, when members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) received their … in The Harvard Crimson and other accounts. The surprises don’t end there: those accounts overlooked the …
Undergraduate English Oration: "Living the Life You Love"
… Turnpike. I was about a month into my term as an editor at The Harvard Crimson , and one of the machines that we use to print the paper had broken beyond …
Softball Ace
… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2pdQmfBe9Y width:402] The ace of the Harvard Crimson's softball pitching staff , Rachel … ’12, shows how she grips and throws her best pitches: the rise ball, chamge-up, and curve. Coach Jenny Allard analyzes …
Issue: May-June 2012
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
… Figuring that “day-trading my stock portfolio was not the best use of my time,” former banker Aaron MacDougall ’94 chose … brewing, and roasting. “Starbucks uses super-automatic machines; they just press a button and out it comes. They …
Issue: March-April 2018
Mugged on Park Avenue
… The stories of Manhattan's outrageous apartment prices are … to determine why — when the cost of building new high-rise apartments there ranges from about $150 to $200 per … to fall. However, Manhattan's prices have continued to rise at rates more than double the national average. And …
Issue: July-August 2004
Crypto—To Regulate or Not?
… The future of cryptocurrency in the United States remains a subject of intense debate. Finance professor Marco Di Maggio , who … manipulation. The crypto industry has experienced major crises, such as Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX scam in 2022, in …
Reading the "Five-foot Shelf" of Harvard Classics
… Princeton alumnus Christopher Beha records the life-affecting experience of reading his way straight through the "Five-foot Shelf" of Harvard Classics, the Great Books famously published in …
Yesterday's News
… 1935 The Business School announces 10 new courses on the business aspects of public administration for students who wish to prepare … though they do “lie a goodly distance away from the pinball machines and hamburger heavens of Harvard Square.” 1960 …
Issue: January-February 2010
Research Clusters Seek Climate Solutions
… mobilize its research and educational capacities to address the broad range of unfolding impacts? With an announcement on February 13 of … to climate threats such as increased flooding, sea-level rise, and shifts in disease impacts (including malaria). …
The Living Dinosaur
… In early october 1989 , Peter Del Tredici of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum was high on the slopes of Tian Mu Mountain Nature Reserve in western Zhejiang …
Issue: November-December 2011
Nicco Mele
… Nicco Mele owes a lot to the Internet. The new director of the Kennedy School’s … Center will play a critical role in preventing the rise of fake news, he claims, by helping audiences become …
Issue: November-December 2017