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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.
Harvard scientist David Keith fosters the study and discussion of geoengineering
David Keith and the question of climate engineering
David Esterly, master woodcarver, works in limewood, like Grinling Gibbons
No one has carved wood like David Esterly since... well, about 1700.
Harvard scholar Peter A. Hall links political economy and the euro crisis
The political economy of a continent at cross-purposes
John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela
Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002
Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed
Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race
Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.
The Big Science of Building a Giant Telescope
Harvard professors are among those building the Giant Magellan Telescope, with hope for new discoveries.
Harvard's Bruce Western advocates new prison, rehabilitation policies
Sociologist Bruce Western rethinks incarceration in America
Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politics
On activism, litigation, and social change in America
Alexander Hamilton Rice, Amazon explorer, by Mark Plotkin
Brief life of an Amazon explorer: 1875-1956