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World-Wide Web of Life
… Doug Backlund, South Dakota Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks American burying beetle Gary M. … White tip reef shark Tim Bowman Long-billed dowitcher Of the 23 types of salamander in the genus Thorius endemic …
Issue: November-December 2008
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
… London cabbies are famous for knowing their way around their city’s maze of streets. To obtain a taxi license in London, drivers must … test requiring them to memorize the names and locations of 25,000 streets, as well as landmarks and businesses. …
Issue: May-June 2025
“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
… For decades , Laurie Anderson dreamed of having a late-night radio show. She wanted to reach people during that period of time when “most of the listeners are half-asleep or trying to get back to …
Behind the Scenes: Journalism in an Internet Era
… donors like you makes it possible for us to produce the high-quality journalism that you expect and rely on. It is no secret that the rise of the Internet has siphoned advertising from newspapers, …
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
The Omicron Semester
… As the Omicron variant spread at year-end, Harvard announced a rapid-fire set of measures to control community transmission. Highlights … that in light of the surge—weekly average cases had risen from 52 during the fall, when the campus was fully …
Issue: March-April 2022
News in Brief
… M. Garber —named interim president on January 2, 2024, and the University’s thirty-first president (through June 30, … 7. The event was attended by friends, family, members of the governing boards, deans and other University leaders, … 2024, page 20). Building Boom Even as the private enterprise research campus and the University theater and housing …
Issue: March-April 2025
Reflections of Pandemic Intimacy
… Katherine Bradford’s color-saturated works often feature bold, … or human bodies lodged within an amorphous frame of time and space. One recent painting, Mother’s Lap, …
Issue: September-October 2021
The Urban Landscaper
… red hair going every which way and his designer black clothes rumpled, Michael Van Valkenburgh, 61, looks like a contradiction: an absent-minded hipster professor. A professor and designer he is—the Eliot professor … doesn’t matter much to Van Valkenburgh. Its order arises instead from the efforts of its designers to realize …
Issue: November-December 2013
Gary Urton Stripped of Emeritus Status
… In a June 10 email to affiliates of the anthropology department, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Peabody Museum, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced that she …
One Hundred Years of Educating Educators
… members, and educationally minded visitors packed into the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Hall for the HGSE Centennial Kickoff … more complicated than the CEO of a large multi-unit enterprise,” he said. Long nodded. “Yes,” she said simply, with a …
The "Sellout"
… In the hazardous waters of American race politics, a particular … approval from “white” society quickly yields suspicions of racial treachery. The black “sellout” suffers a form of …
Issue: November-December 2007
Off the Shelf
… Essays on History, by Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor emeritus (Knopf, $28). A superb argument for anthologizing essays, here by the preeminent historian of early America, on two themes: … in Modern History,” an illuminating dissection of the rise of and uses of quantification, spatial relationships …
Issue: March-April 2015
Centuries of Flowers
… The disruptions resulting from World War II and its … extended to European gardens, including “a large majority of the great historical examples of garden design,” as John S. Thatcher, a former director of …
Issue: November-December 2013
A Brain from a Blue Cooler Box
… when I hear that physicists in Geneva flashed beams of particles round a town-wide circle, smashed them together, and found God. It isn’t God. What they … hadron colliders, they have statistics and sometimes MRI machines. Thinking about thinking is troublesome. It takes …
Issue: May-June 2018