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Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
… When Harvard first-year students moved into the Yard in late August, the annual ritual arrived with a difference: every member of the class of 2029 had already taken a 90-minute online … social networks, and figuring out how operate the laundry machines. When the campus was shut down in 2020, Zoom-based …
Harvard Panel Debunks the Population Implosion Myth
… Headlines lately have proclaimed a crisis of falling birth rates in the United States, but a closer look at the evidence recalls … “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” At a Chan School of Public Health panel this week, a trio of Harvard …
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
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 …
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 …
Off the Shelf
… How do we get from A to B? The entries below lend a sense of urgency to this basic … its reverberations today in everything from the rise of secular, cultural Judaism to the rhetoric of …
Issue: September-October 2025
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 …
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
The Limits of Human Heat Tolerance
… The record-breaking heat that baked parts of the United … an itchy skin rash, and dizziness. A core temperature that rises above 100 degrees Fahrenheit can develop into heat …
Issue: September-October 2025
At Its Core
… For three days each fall, hundreds of cider-hounds, families, and pomological devotees gather in Western Massachusetts to celebrate the apple and the … and ultimately to the Prohibition. That, combined with the rise of an urban-centered society and new immigrant groups …
Issue: September-October 2025
Birthday Candles
… and celebrate Harvardiana: Crimson places and people, their customs and crotchets, consequential and otherwise. … to toot its own horn—in this case, commemorating 85 years of publication in printed form, a longevity increasingly … on March 8, 1940, shortly after arriving as acting editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin . (Forgiving readers will …
Issue: September-October 2025
How Shakespeare’s Rival Remade Elizabethan Art
… He was a radical, the inventor of blank verse, a master of internal monologue, … play’s shock value lay in its plot. Loosely based on the rise of the fourteenth century Central Asian conqueror Timur …
Issue: September-October 2025
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
It’s Complicated
… My first job out of college was in a small newspaper bureau in a … Ninth Ward. Our office, a squat former bank branch, sat on the main thoroughfare, Judge Perez Drive, named for an early … within Gen Z—and the new brand of conservatism on the rise among Harvard students—offers proof that campus …
Issue: September-October 2025
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