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How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine

Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.

by Olivia Farrar

Ginkgo expert Peter Del Tredici in action at the Arnold Arboretum | Video

Ginkgo expert Peter Del Tredici shares tidbits about his favorite "living fossil."

In Michael Norton's survey of wealth inequality perceptions and preferences, Harvard alumni—like other groups—estimated that wealth was more equally distributed in the United States than it actually is, and said they would prefer for it to be even more equally distributed than they estimated it to be. (Click on the thumbnails below to see charts for specific segments of the data.)

Harvard alumni share their wealth distribution preferences in an HBS survey

Michael Norton surveys Harvard alumni perceptions and preferences about wealth distribution.

The author with some of her grade eight math students

An undergraduate travels to Namibia to participate in WorldTeach

An undergraduate travels to Namibia in the hope that, by flinging herself to a faraway place, she will figure things out.

by Katherine Xue

Illustration by Daniel Bejar

Daniel Wegner finds that access to information online changes memory function

Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.

by Alexander Bloom

Skewed Preferences: From left to right: the wealth distribution Norton’s respondents said would be ideal; how they estimated wealth was currently distributed; and the actual distribution of wealth in the United States.

Michael Norton of HBS studies wealth inequality perceptions and preferences

Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome

George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.

by Courtney Humphries

Illustration by Lola Judith Chaisson

Cygnus black hole confirmed by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.

by Jonathan Shaw

Ginkgo specimens in their ancestral setting: Shan Jiang village, Guizhou Province, in the People’s Republic of China

Peter Del Tredici of the Arnold Arboretum searches for the wild ginkgo

Peter Del Tredici’s search for the wild ginkgo and the secret of its uniquely long survival

by Jill Jonnes

The <i>Invention of Book Printing</i> comes from <i>Nova Reperta</i> (New inventions and discoveries of modern times), by Stradanus (Jan van der Straet), the first such illustrated compendium of postclassical innovations (ca. 1599- 1603). The ability to print many copies of such works revolutionized communication of ideas in the sixteenth century.

Sackler exhibition reveals artistic discovery in Renaissance Europe

An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.

by Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw

A miniature portrait of Craigie in his prime, this watercolor on ivory, painted around 1800, is attributed to Archibald Robertson.

Profile of Revolutionary patriot and scoundrel Andrew Craigie

Brief life of a patriot and scoundrel: 1754-1819

by Anthony J. Connors