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We’re Thinking About Darkness All Wrong
There’s a growing movement to curb light pollution. It starts on your front porch.
Life Lessons
With portaits by Mark Ostow In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular 36-year-old points to...
The Middle Class on the Precipice
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure...
Samuel Williston
When Samuel Williston, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. ’88, died at the age of 101, Time magazine took notice, describing his enormous influence on...
Twigs Bent Left of Right
How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’04, born in 1882 to a privileged, aristocratic life in New York’s Hudson River Valley, become a...
Intelligent Evolution
Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of biodiversity and sociobiology, remains at heart a teacher. His...
Cinema Veritas
In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class in “Filming Science” is scattered among the seats, waiting for an...
Brief life of Harvard football pioneer William Henry Lewis
Brief life of a football pioneer: 1868-1949
The Science of Hurt
The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled into a freezer case at the grocery store. He has difficulty walking, and he can’t...
Exiting Iraq
I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians:...
Frances Glessner Lee
To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years...