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Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun on AI and Physics
… The machine-learning revolution has touched every area of … consequences of his work, even as public scrutiny of AI rises. A Loeb lecture that delves into morality would be …
Voltage, Cheap and Dirty
… Call it the high-voltage version of the law of unintended … as prices and market barriers fall, demand for power will rise. Electricity produced by coal plants--located primarily …
The Physician-Poet
… The moment that Rafael Campo, M.D. ’92, still thinks about … or sits at his desk to write a poem—came at the end of what had been the longest, hardest year of his life. … a chance to write together,” he said. As the group began to rise from their chairs, not quite shaking off the spell of …
Issue: May-June 2019
A Landscape Architect's Outdoor Artwork
… Science and art were tangled up together for Todd Gilens, M.L.A. ’02, ever since the childhood … afternoons he spent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “My father had an office nearby,” Gilens recalls, … machinery on private forest land,” he recalls. “These giant machines would cut down a tree, turn it sideways, strip off …
Issue: September-October 2021
Notes on Doctoring
… a neurology resident, Michael P.H. Stanley ’13 was paged to the room of a delirious patient. The terminally ill man, agitated and … earl’s answer: “‘Absolutely.’” That exchange doesn’t surprise O’Keefe, who remembers Stanley as ardently immersed in …
Issue: January-February 2022
No One Deserves a Spot at Harvard
… The British sociologist Michael Young coined “meritocracy” in 1958 in the title of a satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy , which purported to look backward …
Issue: September-October 2020
The “Wild West” of Cancer Misinformation Online
… following, encouraging her supporters to avoid chemotherapy and other medical treatments. But her story began to … fabricated her diagnosis. By then, however, she’d already profited massively from her media empire—a wellness brand … app and cookbook—and many followers had embraced her (often dangerous) claims. In 2025, Netflix released a …
Off the Shelf
… , photographs by Josie Iselin ’84, text by Margaret W. Carruthers (Abrams, $17.95). Here is an international gathering of rocks, tumbled by nature, beautifully photographed, and … transport you to the waterside straightaway. In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard College Early Admissions Soar
… announced today that 895 students were granted admission to the class of 2017 under the early-action application program—an increase of 16 percent from the 774 admitted early last year (the …
Off the Shelf
… The Inside Game, by Keith Law ’94 (Morrow, $28.99). Absent … with references to Thinking Fast and Slow -style analyses of anchoring bias (the case for robot umpires), groupthink, … nothing is the easiest bad call.” Ouch. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today …
Issue: July-August 2020
Epstein-Barr Virus Implicated as Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
… A team of researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) say they have discovered circumstantial evidence showing that …
The Week's Events
… Doug Powell and orator Natalie Zemon Davis, historian at the University of Toronto. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2010 at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class picture, …
Issue: May-June 2010
Off the Glass, On the Ice
… Basketball With a 71-50 dismembering of New Hampshire, the men (5-0) became only the third Crimson squad in the … to go undefeated in its first five games. Junior guard Jim Goffredo led all scorers with a 14.2 points-per-game average, …
Issue: January-February 2006
The Summers Scoop
… As an extra announcing the selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the University's next president rolled off the presses of the Harvard Crimson on Friday, March 9, …
Could Regenerative Biology Work in Humans?
… Chop a three-banded panther worm in half, and the head and tail will swirl around … and almost indistinguishable worms. Loeb associate professor of the natural sciences Mansi Srivastava has studied … progress toward identifying the cellular lineage that gives rise to stem cells during the worm’s early development. “We …
Issue: July-August 2021