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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
Valerie Montgomery Rice’s Medical and Dental Schools Class Day Address
… Thank you for that kind introduction. And thank you to the Harvard medical and dental class of 2021 for inviting me to be your Class Day speaker this … this time in history. A time that has seen the devastation of a global pandemic on the lives of millions of people. …
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Envisions Its Future
… E nlisting its members’ intellects and capabilities, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is pursuing an unprecedented … possible to fund exciting work in new fields. A further surprise is that the FSG report, sweeping in scope, has been …
The Complete Works of Du Fu, China’s Shakespeare, Published in English
… As Shakespeare is to literature in English , so is the poet Du Fu to the Chinese literary tradition. He wrote … to modern Chinese readers in a way that English literature of that period—think Beowulf —is not available to readers of modern English. Du Fu, in fact, is still widely quoted in …
The Developing Child
… teacher Patricia Pérez is reading to her class. The story involves a pig who wants to impress a lady friend … has not, in Latin America in general, been thought of as education ,” says Graham professor of education Catherine Snow. “The approach is: Let …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard A Cappella, From the Top
… On any given weeknight around 10 P.M. in the 1960s, a passerby outside Dunster House might have overhead a group of young men harmonizing and laughing along to slightly … twenty-somethings who felt as though they were on top of the world. As described by a 1963 Harvard Crimson review …
The Unstoppable Botterill
… With eight minutes gone in sudden-death overtime and the 1999 national women's hockey title at stake, A.J. … is the best skater in the world, with the best skating form of any woman you'll ever see," says her Harvard coach, Katey … that skating was what I absolutely loved to do." Quelle surprise. In twelfth grade Botterill moved to Calgary, where …
Off the Shelf
… The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s, by Werner Sollors, Cabot professor of English … and our local, state, and federal governments.” The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western …
Issue: July-August 2014
Putting the Music in Musical Theater
… Last spring, during the height of the pandemic’s catastrophic first wave in New … tights glides across her living room in a New York high-rise, as the singer’s voice lilts over long, slow, mournful …
Issue: July-August 2021
A Yardstick of Service
… to just how limited my worldview was when I studied there, and how little I knew about the terrible problems and … more focused on the wider world beyond the confines of Cambridge. More faculty members are concentrating on … the inexpensive “lab-on-a-chip” medical diagnostic devices of George Whitesides, are leading to breakthroughs in …
Issue: September-October 2011
Five Questions with Professor Stephanie Burt
… LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall ( Harvard, 2025 ), Loker professor of English Stephanie Burt gives voice to a shimmering variety of queer and transgender verse. “These are lives not represented, or not openly, or not … there poems here that you hadn’t read before, or that surprised you upon rereading? Absolutely —I knew when I started …
The Purely Pragmatic University
… face exceptional opportunities and exceptional risks. Their research is needed more than ever, now that new … sudden change, adults in many occupations and many stages of life are returning to campus for further study. Many of … to pursue private ventures at a cost to the common enterprise. Once profit-seeking increases throughout the …
Issue: May-June 2003
The Inspired Choreography of Irineo Cabreros
… At the Harvard Dance Center in April, at an evening showcasing the work of emerging choreographers, Irineo Cabreros’s “Quartet for the End of Time” stood out. There was the unusual score, combining …
Reforming Social Security
… The current discussion of ways to reform the U.S. Social … that we will want to devote to healthcare will likely rise substantially and, because much of healthcare in the … reach retirement with sufficient savings. As wage levels rise over time, Social Security benefits therefore need to …
Issue: March-April 2005
A Focus on the Future
… annual sustainability report, released October 4, details the University’s efforts to prepare for two fast-approaching … with raising cattle ); water use is down; and one-third of the University bus fleet has transitioned to … and staff have gradually returned to campus, emissions have risen in turn. But they remain similar to the pre-pandemic …