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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.
Harvard scholars study the Amazon rainforest under global climate change
Students grapple with the fate of the rainforest in a changing climate.
Brief life of Harvard CIA agent who helped install the shah of Iran
Brief life of a Harvard conspirator: 1916-2000
by Gwen Kinkead
Daniel Lieberman on the Evolution of the Human Head
How the shape of our skulls evolved, and what that reveals about us
Excerpt from "Reading Obama," by James T. Kloppenberg
Deliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama's conception of American governance
Major retrospective showcases photographer Susan Meiselas and her work
Photographer Susan Meiselas’s quest to understand via images. With audio from the interview.
Profile of American suffragist Alice Paul
Brief life of a pioneering suffragist: 1885-1977
by Mary Walton
Profile of social psychologist Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School
Amy Cuddy probes snap judgments, warm feelings, and how to become an “alpha dog.”
Harvard scholars and students fight HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
Harvard professors and students take aim at the social and behavioral factors that contribute to HIV.
Mindfulness—the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer
Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating.
In photographs by Wang Di and Xing Danwen, Beijing as "urban utopia"
Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.