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Enablers of the Unethical
… Elizabeth Holmes. Bernie Madoff. Harvey Weinstein. These are people known for unethical and illegal behaviors, … on a single villain downplays or ignores the network of dozens or even hundreds of people—the personal …
Issue: May-June 2023
The Future of Tuberculosis
… Every year, tuberculosis —a preventable and often curable disease—kills about 1.5 million people around the world. The evasive bacterium infects one in three people worldwide. While most of the two billion people who carry it will never know, one …
Financing Climate Adaptation—and Deciding What to Let Go
… What will happen when sea-level rise, wildfires, droughts, and floods begin to erode the tax base that cities and towns will use to pay for … markets have already begun to price in the probability of such disasters, and that will make future adaptation …
Harvard Renames Diversity Office
… The University announced Monday that it will rename its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging the “Office …
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 …
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 End of the Harvard Square Pit
… On a hot June afternoon, the Harvard Square Pit was quiet. In the submerged hangout … will be staring at fences: in early July, the city of Cambridge will begin demolishing the Pit, a famous … earlier on June 25. At the Saturday evening celebration of the popular counterculture locale, hosted (perhaps …
In the Crosshairs
… During the last election campaign, Donald J. Trump fulminated … investigating campuses, and perhaps challenging the system of accreditation (which determines student eligibility for … reflecting another strain of thought, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) polemicist Max Eden in December called …
Issue: May-June 2025
"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
An Extra Layer of Care
… Eric Buck’s life turned upside down in the spring of 2014, after doctors diagnosed the lump in his … fishing. The family moved his bed and medical equipment—machines, monitors, wheelchair, and the like—to the dining …
Issue: March-April 2015
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
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 …
Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
… Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, … later, this February 3, he returned to campus and discussed the newest innovation in technology—artificial intelligence. … frontier of technology. During the question period (a reprise of an earlier such session on campus ), students …
The Causes of Long COVID
… Although Americans have survived more than 93 million cases of COVID-19, the disease is not yet fully understood. And for an … Whether the relative risk of developing long-term symptoms rises with each subsequent infection is not yet known. …
Issue: September-October 2022
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 …