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Sherry Turkle, Mark Doty, to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
… (PBK) Literary Exercises, which will take place in Sanders Theatre on May 23. This is traditionally the opening event of Commencement week, and during it, the society confers … , “I began to hear students talking about their minds as machines, based on the early personal computers they had. …
Antibiotics Feed These Bacteria, Instead of Killing Them
… science fiction, but it's not. A paper published today in the journal Science explains that some bacteria thrive on a diet of antibiotics, instead of dying as previous science predicts they should. The story …
Annals of Anxiety
… “I have since the age of about two been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses,” writes Scott Stossel ’91, …
Issue: January-February 2014
Class Day Speaker for the Harvard College Class of 2008 Announced
… Ben S. Bernanke ’75 will serve as Class Day speaker for the Harvard College Class of 2008, addressing the graduating seniors and their guests … afternoon, June 4, in Tercentenary Theatre. Read the official announcement . … Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben …
Debora L. Spar: “The Woman’s Problem”
… Debora L. Spar grew up in the 1970s, a time when women finally had a voice and an opportunity to move up in the professional world. She thought life would be like “the … job. “We had this idea that we would just waltz into the professional world and it would just work out,” Spar told an …
Prediction and Prevention
… disease, but clinical researchers are already using other kinds of information about their patients to guide their treatment. Cobb professor of psychiatry Matcheri Keshavan, who is based at …
Issue: July-August 2017
Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?
… Can cellphone technologies play a role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic? Knowing how public health policies … population-level view, can help guide the decisions of leaders. Mobile phone location data can reveal large-scale patterns of activity and travel between regions. In this episode, …
An Unexpected Risk Factor
… not addressed in Mohamed A. El-Erian’s annual letter was the uncertainty arising from unanticipated change in Harvard … and perhaps in other senior investment personnel—many of them newly hired by him. On September 11, the day after a … and services….” He is the likely candidate to run the enterprise in the future. Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News …
Issue: November-December 2007
Slide Show: The Women of Mburahati
… In The September-October 2010 cover article, "The Social … Epidemic," readers meet Kulwa Amiri Mbunju, a resident of Mburahati, a neighborhood in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and … Mbunju in their homes. In this neighborhood, Harvard School of Public Health lecturer Marc Mitchell tested a mobile …
Behind the Scenes
… visuals for films like Colossal and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings . But Scott’s film didn’t awaken in her the … trouble.” As art director for films like Gone Girl , 300: Rise of an Empire , Shopgirl , Punch-Drunk Love , and Love & …
Issue: January-February 2024
Off the Shelf
… and Wang, $30; $13.95 paper). Think “Healthcare reform: the comic book.” An illustrated guide to the new law by the MIT professor of economics who advised former Massachusetts … From the scale of the universe to the molecules that gave rise to life, the director of Harvard’s origins of life …
Issue: January-February 2012
Colonies of Clay
… Full of some unknowable purpose, a little clay monster gesticulates from the kitchen countertop. Slightly damp, it resembles a newly … desert planet. While a small kiln hums in the background of his Cambridge apartment, Christopher Adams ’94 smiles …
Issue: July-August 2015
The Mediatrician
… This past June , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that violent video games posed no more danger to children than the grimmest of Grimms’ fairy tales. At issue was a California ban of the sale of violent video games to minors—and seven of …
Issue: November-December 2011
The Best Diets for Healthy Aging
… links four major healthy eating patterns to a lower risk of premature death and of cancer, diseases of the cardiovascular system, and respiratory illness. The …
Asteroid-Naming in the New Millennium
… Acting out of "a sense of public duty," Ashok Nimgade '80, M.P.H. '98, M.D., of … sent by David Anthony Garcia '81 to Brian G. Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The letter …