Olivia Farrar

Olivia Farrar is the digital content specialist at Harvard Magazine. A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, she writes about technology, medicine, the natural sciences, and the humanities. Before joining the magazine in 2023, she worked at Audible in content strategy, script editing, and production, helping to produce titles including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and The Signalman by Charles Dickens (directed by Sam Mendes), a modern reimagining of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid, and numerous other audiobooks, short stories, and podcasts. 

Olivia adheres to the highest ethical standards across writing and reporting, including in interviews with subjects and throughout researching and fact-checking stories.

The 140th Harvard-Yale Game: Fandom Tiny Mic Edition

“The Game” is celebrating its 140th year. We tiny-mic’d some Crimson supporters. 

How Our Planet’s Trees Use Carbon

From the Amazon rainforest to shrubs planted around city streets, trees influence the earth’s temperature.

The Evolutionary Case for Exercise

The off-label prescription from our hunter-gatherer ancestors

How Physics Can Be Used to Manipulate a Coin Toss

How a coin toss can be uniquely rigged – and can demonstrate probability’s role in reducing uncertainty.

How to Reform Healthcare

104 Harvard thought leaders outline medicine’s unmet needs.

Can New Drugs Help Millions of Americans with Obesity?

GLP-1s like Ozempic in the future of healthcare

Made in Germany

German national identity at the Harvard Art Museums

Nuclear Treaties and the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict

Mitigating nuclear risks in modern warfare

Psychedelics for Healing

Harvard’s I. Glenn Cohen on the use of “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelics in medicine

Harvard economist Jason Furman on immigration and the U.S. economy.

Harvard economist Jason Furman on immigration and the U.S. economy.

Clean Tech Innovation Against U.S.-China Relations

How will China’s rapid growth in the clean technology industry reshape U.S.-China relations?

Harvard Physicians on the Digital Healthcare Revolution

How much will the future of medicine be shaped by new technologies?