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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Grading Teachers
Education researchers and policymakers, like the rest of us, have long known that a good teacher can make all the difference to a childs...
"Unsales" Pitches
These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at every turn. Even so, the $4 billion spent annually on direct-to-consumer...
Latinos Nix Violence
First-generation immigrants are more likely to be law-abiding than third-generation Americans of similar socioeconomic status, reports Robert...
“Alternative” Placebos
Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning...
Prenatal Competition?
Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women between the ages of 15 and 49, according...
The Baby Business
“Sex sells.” Now sex cells sell, too. In 2004 more than a million infertile Americans paid dearly to conceive a child. Although...
Questions of Character
What are readings from Sophocles, Chinua Achebe, and Joseph Conrad doing in a Harvard Business School course? And why is the professor talking...
Hold the Garlic Mustard
Garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, a European native, immigrated to the United States in the 1800s, says Kristina Stinson, “perhaps...
Neurons Sort Nouns
Imagine the brain as a giant filing cabinet. The puzzle of deciphering the labels on the drawers has occupied many a scientist and philosopher...
Zen Brains
One day, mental exercise may join physical exercise on Americans’ to-do lists and among their doctors’ recommendations. So says a...