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Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?
Anonymized location data can help guide strategies for protecting public health in a pandemic.
Bill Gates Promotes Public Service
In a speech at Harvard, Gates exhorts students to commit their energies to solving the world's most pressing problems. Plus, audio from a conversation with Gates.
Pleasure by Proxy
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
by Craig Lambert
Radio Wits
Three Harvard graduates help create the weekly humor of NPR’s Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!
by Craig Lambert
Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
by Craig Lambert
The Son Also Rises
David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.
Science and Song
Listen to songs written by assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology Pardis Sabeti, performed with her alternative-rock band, Thousand Days.
Camp Cooking, and Children
Reading from his own works, longtime New Yorker writer Ian Frazier ’73 recounts the perils of preparing “breakfast in a paper bag”...
Songs from "Something Else" by Eisa Davis
Eisa Davis ’92—actress, playwright, musician, dancer—is also known as the creator of "soulful, jazz-inflected songs." Listen to tracks from her debut album, "Something Else"...
Thoroughly Eclectic
Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela's Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)...
by Julia Wallace