Cara Feinberg

Chris Green and Kristen Stilt in Austin Hall’s Ames courtroom with Lola, Stilt’s rescue dog from Egypt

Features | March-April 2016

The animal law conundrum: when are creatures "things”?

Animal law takes hold at Harvard Law School.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Features | May-June 2015

Harvard's Sendhil Mullainathan on behavior and poverty

A behavioral economist’s fresh perspectives on poverty

Ted Kaptchuk in his home office in Cambridge

Features | January-February 2013

Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard Medical School studies placebos

An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine.

Features | November-December 2011

Former Hollywood filmmaker Michael Rich studies how media affect youth

Former Hollywood filmmaker Michael Rich of HMS studies how media affect youth.

| September-October 2010

Thich Nhat Hanh and Lilian Cheung apply mindfulness techniques to eating

Applying ancient Buddhist mindfulness techniques to eating in the modern world

Ellen Langer at home, with her dogs and her own painting of a dog.

Features | September-October 2010

Mindfulness—the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer

Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating.

This vice-presidential, analemmatic sundial requires a human gnomon to work

Montage | May-June 2008

Solar Sculptor

Michael Kapetan’s sundials don’t do “clock time”...