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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the Special Olympics
Brief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009
“Our Towns” highlights a positive force in American life
James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
The Bajau fishermen of Indonesia face lifestyle pressures.
In Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
by Lydialyle Gibson , David Hu
Mihir Desai explains the real consequences of the new tax law
Understanding the real consequences of the new tax law
A new Green Revolution grows from agricultural technologies
Can microbial technologies lead to better, more abundant food?
How Americans Turned Against Knowledge
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Brief life of Mary Ellen Avery, groundbreaking neonatologist
Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011
Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China
The hunt for rare plants in China