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Steampunk’s Sole
… kooky scientist’s air-propelled time machine housed within the skeletal frame of a covered wagon. This prime example of Steampunk’s aesthetic playfully melds imaginary and …
Issue: November-December 2016
Drying Out "The Game"
… Reacting swiftly to the alcohol-related problems at last November's edition of The Game (see "Unsavory Record," January-February, page … for future contests at Harvard Stadium. In December, dean of the College Harry R. Lewis let it be known that …
Issue: November-December 2001
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
Was the Human Brain Unleashed?
… Compare humans to other mammals and a distinguishing feature stands out: our … into them. The human brain is more than triple the size of the brain of chimpanzees, our closest relatives. In particular, it’s …
Issue: September-October 2014
Zakaria Shares Message of Hope in Commencement Speech
… Zakaria , Ph.D. '93, LL.D. ’12, painted an upbeat picture of today’s world in his Commencement address on May 24. In summing up the world graduates are entering, many speakers focus on … 40 years, the number of college graduates worldwide has risen fourfold for men and sevenfold for women. Furthermore, …
Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix
… Harvard’s course offerings used to take the form of thick paper catalogs, filled with numbers and … when certain kinds of transformations happen, fields that rise, fields that fall,” Schnapp continues. “So, in a sense, …
Advancing Fields of Knowledge
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) intellectual prowess … like her field of astronomy, and vice versa. While machines are much better at computation, “Humans are much … Fellowship for her 2012 book, Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures. “We’re ready for a new …
Financial Aid: Bending the Curve
… The College today introduced changes in undergraduate … aid—effective next fall, for the entering class of 2016—that reduce support for higher-income families and … approximately $120 million; the term bill for that year had risen to $47,215). The new policy featured: An income-based …
Your Friend, Fidel
… Sam From: Fidel Castro 26 July 2000 As I prepare to outwit the tenth U.S. President who might attempt to overthrow my … in years to come, today, on the forty-seventh anniversary of my successful revolutionary movement, I owe you thanks. … Square protests were nurtured internationally through fax machines. But you forbid the export of fax machines to Cuba. …
Doctors for Change
… Among the items on display in the exhibit titled Prescriptions for Peace is the book Surviving Nuclear War. It offers instructions for creating a DIY face covering to … in 1985, with the Cold War in its final years and amid the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, the IPPNW won the Nobel …
Debunking the Double
… On the third day of my eight-week stint as a summer-school … one of my charges reminded me of the difficulties that can arise from sharing a bedroom at Harvard. She was compact, the … part of a Harvard College education." When clashes arise, Torrance says, "We don't have a set 'procedure'" …
Issue: September-October 2003
Studying ChatGPT Like a Psychologist
… Ask GPT-4 , the most advanced model of ChatGPT, to decode a string of … of human minds offer a new way to make sense of intelligent machines. “Cognitive scientists have… a rich toolbox of …
The Press Professor
… Nicholas Lemann ’76 seems an unlikely candidate for the role of higher-education reformer. Best known as a … in the school’s lobby: “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, …
Issue: September-October 2005
In Search of Spontaneity
… Almost every day for the past six months at approximately 1 p.m. , I’ve taken our … to swerve away to maintain my social distance. Darting out of a stranger’s way might scare away the cardinal I was … blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight. …
The Art Army
… have stolen more than five million cultural objects from the countries it conquered, including thousands of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces. As the … a scientist , a modernizer, but he never put his faith in machines. The skilled observer, not the machine, was the …
Issue: January-February 2010