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The Psyche on Automatic
… Though snap judgments get no respect, they are not so much a bad habit as a fact of life. Our first impressions register far too quickly for … and hormones. This work may help clarify how men and women rise to the top--or fall by the wayside--in school and at …
Issue: November-December 2010
Of Ants and Earth
… emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997, Wilson—the father of sociobiology and biophilia, the most acute … it, too, fell silent. "Completing the Linnaean Enterprise" How, then, to proceed? For Wilson, coming to terms …
Issue: March-April 2003
Newspaper Offers Details of Hauser Lab Investigation
… According to an August 19 report by the Chronicle of Higher Education , Harvard’s investigation of professor of psychology Marc Hauser’s lab (and see an …
A Century of Commerce
… (HBS) is throwing a year-long centennial celebration. The anniversary itself falls on April 8, the date in 1908 … join in HBS-style case-method discussions on the future of the school, based on a new case study being prepared for … speakers include Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, chairman of Microsoft Corporation and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda …
Issue: March-April 2008
Designing for “Changing Climates”
… Tourists visiting the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris might be seeking a religious or aesthetic experience. But they often leave feeling woozy for other reasons. In the … in Paris; biodiversity in Arles, France; and sea level rise in Antwerp, Belgium. The models, impressive in their …
Expert Opinion: Avian Flu Experiments Pose Public Health Risk
… avian flu strains more transmissible among mammals put the public’s health at unnecessary risk, and therefore raise ethical concerns, write Harvard professor of epidemiology Marc Lipsitch and Yale professor Alison …
"The Love of a Ghost for a Ghost"
… one knew we had this document,” says Leslie Morris, curator of the Houghton Library’s T.S. Eliot collection, describing the … to the current librarians at Princeton, who were surprised to hear about it when Morris called them to coordinate …
Rereading the Renaissance
… The only thing most teachers and students of the humanities … diplomacy. Naturally, as Hankins writes in an essay on “The Rise and Fall of Neo-Latin,” “if an author hoped for a fame …
Issue: March-April 2006
Faith through Film
… Among a sea of black hats, Salvador Alexander Litvak ’87 sported a white fedora. His color palette was not the only thing setting him apart from the 92,000 revelers at … religious Christians expressed excitement. That did not surprise Litvak—he says many Christians follow his Accidental …
Issue: May-June 2025
A Language of Behavior?
… a darkened lab at Harvard Medical School, a mouse explores the bottom of a black bucket. Nosing forward, it turns to the right, … what the animal will do next. Scientists led by associate professor of neurobiology Sandeep Datta have developed …
Issue: November-December 2018
Flu Is a Matter of Security, Frenk Says
… The word “security” brings to mind topics such as terrorism, … and other contagious diseases. But influenza is an issue of national security, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) dean Julio Frenk said today in a …
Demolish the Food Pyramid
… In the wild , animals instinctively find and consume the foods … to maximize revenue, not health. The result is a plague of nutrition-related illness: obesity, diabetes, heart … information," says Walter C. Willett, M.D., D.P.H. '80, professor of medicine and Stare professor of epidemiology and …
Issue: November-December 2001
Raising the Bar
… width:407] WATCH A VIDEO of NCAA pole vaulter Nico Weiler, profiled in the May-June 2013 issue , discussing the skills needed to …
Fong of Ping-Pong
… The orange ball, clicking in its relentless, stuttering rhythm, is bigger now. Last fall the game of table tennis adopted a new official ball, 40 millimeters in diameter, to replace the …
"Of Faith and Citizenship"
… I am one of you . But I am also one of "them." What do I mean? When I am told that this is a …
Issue: July-August 2002