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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.
Innovation in humanities courses aims to reach larger numbers of students
New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”
Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
“Third-stage” learners using a novel Harvard curriculum engage social challenges.
Brief life of psychologist Henry A. Murray, by Marshall Getz
Brief life of a personality psychologist: 1893-1988
Understanding big data leads to insights, efficiencies, and saved lives
Information science promises to change the world.
Nuclear weapons are incompatible with the U.S. constitution and democracy
“Out of ratio” weapons are essentially ungovernable.
Citizen science draws amateurs into scientific research
In the Internet era, research moves from professionals’ labs to amateurs’ homes.
Brief life of novelist Ann Petry, by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997
Anita Elberse on the big business of blockbusters
In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.
Robert Frost revealed in his letters
Robert Frost’s “doubleness,” revealed in his letters—and poems.
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond on evictions
Sociologist Matthew Desmond studies eviction and the lives of America’s poor.