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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
The Fruit of Others’ Labor
… Sue Greene, coordinator of The West Springfield Community Garden in Boston’s South End, … these 35 (mostly) vegetable plots, as it does in the dozens of other urban green spaces that are also open to the public …
Issue: May-June 2015
The Feelings Are Mutually Exclusive
… Feelings color all our experiences, and for some people the filter of emotions can go from rose to purple to black as quickly and subtly as the setting of the sun. Once referred to as manic-depressive illness, …
Off the Shelf
… Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. ’84 (W.W. Norton, $27.95). The biological anthropologist/neuroscientist at Emory University examines the origins of faith from his upbringing (as an Orthodox Jew, who became … the human-planned catastrophes in the making, as seas rise, coastal development accelerates, and tax breaks and …
Issue: September-October 2019
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 …
What Was the Enlightenment, Really?
… It looks like something out of a science fiction novel. Architect Étienne-Louis … imagines Isaac Newton’s fantastical final resting place, is the first piece visitors see when they enter Dare to Know , Harvard Art Museums’ new installation of prints and drawings from the Enlightenment era. The …
Not Made for Walkin'
… Less a fête for the feet than a feast for the eyes, much of the haute … extruded steel, Cataldo explains, a material also on the rise in transforming the world of architecture and the urban …
Issue: March-April 2016
A Robust Decade at the Business School
… Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day … remains prospective. Meanwhile, international students have risen from 23 percent to 33 percent of the M.B.A. class …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Undiscovered Planet
… Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton— these are familiar names. During a 150-year span in the … that placed the sun, rather than the earth, at the center of things astronomical. But have you ever heard of Carl … that these molecules may have appeared as a response to the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere, so the timing of their …
Issue: November-December 2007
The Freshmen Convene
… Fresh from their first day of fall-term course shopping, the class of 2016 gathered for the College’s fourth annual Freshman …
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 …
The Ethanol Illusion
… Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) … to 500 gallons for every man, woman, and child in the country. With gasoline prices up by almost a third over … gallon. Yet by May 2006, the wholesale price of ethanol had risen to $2.65 a gallon (or in reality $3.16 a gallon, if …
Issue: November-December 2006
Mise en Scène
… A professor once advised me that I shouldn’t have possessions until I have tenure. “Then,” he said, “you can start to collect books.” I’ve given … felt like a catatonia patient on an IV drip of food and gym machines and single-ply toilet paper. This year, as a …
Issue: January-February 2017
Climate-Change Solutions
… Against the backdrop of student-led protests urging divestment from … scene: impacts in terms of droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, heavy flooding, and precipitation.” On the other hand, …
William Kentridge: “In Praise of Shadows”
… The lights dim , and an excerpt of one of William Kentridge’s animated films begins. A parade of silhouette puppets marches from the left side of the screen to the right, seen in profile. …