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Getting to Mars (for Real)
Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.
The progress of palliative medicine
The progress of palliative medicine
Academic publishing and scholarly communication: a status report
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication
Brief life of writer-reformer Edward Everett Hale, by Jeffrey Mifflin
Brief life of a science-minded writer and reformer: 1822-1909
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Violence against South Asian women and solutions
Addressing the root causes of violence against women in South Asia
by Rohini Pande
Cass Sunstein on the constitution in the 21st century
Cass Sunstein and the modern regulatory state
James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing
History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
Brief life of conservationist John Muir, by Steven Pavlos Holmes
Brief life of a Scottish-American conservationist: 1838-1914
Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.
Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.
Harvard's Dale Jorgenson advocates taxing carbon and recycling the revenue
A plan for controlling greenhouse gases while enhancing economic growth