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Your Brain on Exercise
… that people who exercise are at greatly reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Lab work in mice has shown that they also grow more new neurons that are involved in … human irisin is identical, and blood levels of the hormone rise in both in response to endurance exercise. Wrann was a …
Issue: January-February 2022
Building a New Information Civilization
… in ways unimaginable just a few years ago—through the large-scale collection of data from wireless devices they keep close. “These are … the stark difference in national responses to the rise of an information civilization—a world in which …
"Lots of Reasonable 99c Lunches"
… Found in this magazine’s basement: a sheaf of pages listing Cambridge and Boston restaurants from a guide for students that evidently dates from the early 1960s. Here are the greasy-spoons: Waldorf, … dependables, including Elsie’s and the Wursthaus. Scenes of innocent merriment, such as Cronin’s, where “dinners run …
Issue: May-June 2006
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 …
Engineering Life
… S ynthetic biology, or the application of engineering principles … even create hybrid systems by linking them to non-living machines. Propelling the science forward are scores of …
Issue: January-February 2020
Undervaluing Undergraduate Education?
… In a column in the Chronicle of Higher Education (September 28), Kevin … he inflates to $7.7 billion in current dollars), and its rise to a peak value of $36.9 billion in 2008. The crux of …
Shots in the Dark
… The Z closet in Houghton Library is called that because Z is not used in the accession codes for the ordinary run of items in the collection: rare books and manuscripts. The … Ruskin’s eyepiece, Charles Dickens’s walking cane, locks of various writers’ hair, a group of pencils made by Henry …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Honorands
… At the morning exercises of its 359th Commencement on May 27, … a majority had earned Harvard degrees earlier in life. They are listed here in alphabetical order, except for the … follow the biographical entries. Thomas R. Cech , Doctor of Science. A chemistry graduate of Grinnell College who …
The Harvard Tour
… Fall of junior year, I often woke up to a yell outside my window. … measured scream, starting low and increasing in pitch, the way one shouts during “the wave.” After the first few … to tell this story. DO NOT MENTION IT.” Even so, I was surprised that the Key tour had no overarching narrative. I …
Issue: July-August 2018
Can MOOCs Predict the Future of Online Education?
… The best use of massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be in providing instruction that leads to online professional degrees—not the extension of basic college … programs offered directly to businesses (200 business enterprises are now customers). And its third strategy involves …
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
The Table Is Set
… For the installation of its twenty-seventh president, Harvard displayed on a stage set up at the front of Tercentenary Theatre various sacred relics: the …
Issue: November-December 2001
The Morning Exercises, Virtual Again
… and a national reckoning with continuing racial injustices, the Harvard community carried on through a unique academic year, closing with a week of online class days, degree conferrals, and more. Two of … and in a nod to the scholarship at the heart of the enterprise, the annual PBK teaching awards—based on nominations …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
Pottery Predates Agriculture
… The evidence that pottery predates agriculture received a powerful boost Thursday with the publication in Science of a discovery that pottery shards from Xianrendong Cave, an … agriculture, about 11,000 years ago, with the concomitant rise of sedentary communities characterized by complex …
Genius at the School Gates
… Lady Novelists are a genus with many species, determined by the particular quality of silliness that predominates in them—the frothy, the … to avoid association with the more frivolous writers of her sex. “Gender issues have plagued the arts from time …