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This Astronomer is Sounding a Warning on 'Space Junk'
… High above the Earth , in orbits crowded with satellites and debris, a silent traffic crisis is unfolding. With thousands of discarded and broken human objects whizzing around the … orbit, the danger of destructive collisions continues to rise. … As debris accumulates in low Earth orbit, the danger …
Yurong “Luanna” Jiang, M.P.A. ’25, Graduate English Address: “Our Humanity”
… in Mongolia, I got a call from two classmates in Tanzania. They had a very urgent question: how to use their washing … all study together here at Harvard. That moment reminds me of something I used to believe when I was a kid: that the … It was built on this exact beautiful vision that humanity rises and falls as one. When I met my 77 classmates from 34 …
Dollar Dramas
… As the world learned in the first hundred days of the second … States has repeatedly been the epicenter of worldwide crises and recessions. Indeed, the 2008-2009 global financial …
Issue: July-August 2025
When Code Meets Canvas
… Algorithms govern much of our lives today. They likely brought you to this article, will shape how you … at the Max Planck Institute’s Center for Humans and Machines , argued that generative AI, particularly large …
Raising the Estimate of Sea-Level Rise
… Picture a plastic bowl. Put a large piece of ice in it—one tall enough that it rises high above the bowl’s rim. Now melt the ice. The bowl will catch most …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard’s Standoff: The Research At Risk
… in federal research funding in fiscal year 2024—11 percent of its overall annual operating budget. Most came from the Department of Health and Human Services, which houses … biology Sharad Ramanathan, who studies how stem cells give rise to complex tissues in the human embryo. Ramanathan, who …
Issue: July-August 2025
Reconstructing the Berlin Wall
… Massachusetts, novelist David Leo Rice ’10 sensed there was something lurking beneath the surface of things. Meandering through the aisles of his local video store, he was convinced the VHS tapes …
Issue: July-August 2025
Predicting the Future of China's Rise
… Lawrence H. Summers lived up to his billing as a voice of opposition Wednesday evening at a Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) discussion on China’s rise as an economic power and its rivalry with the United States. Timed to the Beijing Olympics, the event …
The Rise of Faculty Centrism
… Politically, U.S. professors are less liberal than many people believe, but their ranks also include fewer conservatives than in the … Only 20 percent voted for George Bush in 2004. The rise in centrism, the study authors say, seems to have come …
Issue: January-February 2008
Losing the Will to Argue—Civilly—is a National Risk, Professor Says
… At this year’s Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) convocation, the message to graduates was both celebratory and sober. For … and for one’s opponent. She also spoke candidly about the rise of what she termed “performative actions”—institutional …
Trade Cards in the Age of Invention
… In the United States, the late nineteenth century was an age of … … 223 … A nineteenth-century advertising medium traces the rise of consumer culture. … A nineteenth-century advertising …
Issue: July-August 2021
University Housing on the Rise
… More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students … some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in the Riverside area of Cambridge, near Mather House and … large, two-section building by Kyu Sung Woo Architects will rise on Memorial Drive. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates …
Issue: September-October 2005
Pony Plunges
… Fans heard the clop-clop first. Six times a day, a horse climbed a series of ramps up to a 40-foot platform. The emcee asked for … History of Athletics as Entertainment . “Before the rise of professional sports, there were athletes, but you …
Issue: July-August 2025
The Modern World Reconceived
… Who are the protagonists of The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New … rich through entrepreneurship and the funding of enterprise, of the officials of states and government who see …
Issue: May-June 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
… she was struck and killed by a self-driving car. Although there was a human operator behind the wheel, an autonomous … between people and AI technologies, raises a host of ethical and proto-legal questions. What moral obligations … applications. Consider a prosaic-seeming social change: machines are already being given the power to make …
Issue: January-February 2019