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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
Human and Machine Intelligence
… Harvard celebrated the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural … in December 2021 , shared their vision for the new enterprise. President Lawrence S. Bacow spoke about how far …
“The Risk of Inaction”
… Are you a “Steady Eddy,” “Twin Peaker,” or a “Night Owl”? A software company called Opower has identified what times of the day a large swath of American households typically use … shines, and not otherwise—presenting problems that do not arise from running fossil-fueled or nuclear-power plants in …
Issue: May-June 2015
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 …
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 …
From the Archives: Image and the Arc of Feeling
… Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory Jorie Graham is a preeminent contemporary poet. From the archives, here is Craig Lambert’s portrait, published … A good poem is always a reaction, a moment of acute surprise that occurred in the soul of the speaker.” The literary …
The Marketplace of Perceptions
… began with anomalies, strange facts, odd observations that the prevailing wisdom could not explain. Casino gamblers, … perverse facts are a direct affront to the standard model of the human actor—Economic Man—that classical and … the course of their lifetimes.” Such problems should not arise, according to standard economic theory, which holds …
Issue: March-April 2006
"The Adventure of Our Times"
… Members of the University community , friends of Harvard from far and wide: we celebrate today a ritual … tensions that are at the heart of the academic enterprise. The university is open to all ideas, but it is …
Issue: November-December 2001
Chairman of the Bored
… Improbable as it may seem, James D. Watson—the co-discoverer (with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA—has written a Book of Manners: the … world of an academic department, if you don’t create such crises, limited resources will surely go to gutsier …
Issue: January-February 2008
Civil Rights in the American West
… In Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State (Riverhead, $33), journalist and Northeastern University professor Caleb Gayle, M.B.A.-M.P.P. ’19, tells the story of …
Issue: September-October 2025
"The Infinitude of the Private Man"
… himself from respectable mediocrity. He graduated in the exact middle of the 59-member Harvard class of 1821, his greatest distinction the dubious honor of being …
Issue: May-June 2003
The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
… collaboratively, have created an extraordinary image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Sagittarius A*, a supermassive …
In the Eye of the Storm
… Regularly the dismal news streams in from Japan. The "lost … seemingly invincible economy began to derail--shows no sign of ending. The high public-approval ratings for wavy-haired … number of full-time, entry-level positions has given rise to the so-called furiitaa ("freeter," an odd label …
Issue: November-December 2001
Reviving the Purpose of American Higher Education
… To secure its identity as The Ohio State University, it engaged in a three-year … it is just one particularly absurd (and expensive) example of the widespread focus on brand identity within American … nonetheless can sustain a meaningful sense of common enterprise and support a range of thoughtful responses essential …
Issue: March-April 2023
Art of the Hunt
… A Persian prince of antiquity possessed hunting equipment of often inescapable effectiveness—a trained cheetah. See the manuscript painting below. Because a cheetah is …
Issue: May-June 2005