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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.
The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
Brief life of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839
How Franklin Leonard became screenwriters' most effective “hype man”
Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine
Super PACs and their effect on U.S. presidential politics
How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics
Gene drives promise unprecedented human control of the environment
A technique for pushing genetic alterations through entire species of plants and animals may herald a future in which humans manage ecosystems through molecular biology.
Brief life of innovative surgeon Champ Lyons by Martin Dalton and Laurence Lyons
Brief life of an innovative surgeon: 1907-1965
Political theorist Danielle Allen is profiled by Spencer Lenfield
Danielle Allen’s mission to return equality to the heart of American democracy
Harvard economist Richard Freeman on the risks of robotization of the economy
Most people’s jobs are at risk of becoming robotized, argues labor economist Richard Freeman.
The animal law conundrum: when are creatures "things”?
Animal law takes hold at Harvard Law School.
Harvard's eugenics era
When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”