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Radical Living
… There’s nothing superfluous about Canterbury Shaker Village. That’s just the way members of the separatist Christian sect who lived on this New … a communal agrarian utopia: “Heaven on Earth.” First to rise was the Meeting House. There, devotees eschewed …
Issue: September-October 2017
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
… In the history of stock market rallies and economic recessions, … says . “ At such times, a few financial storytellers often rise to prominence: people you’ve never heard of who fill … hegemony in online search, the economics of fads, and the rise of risk at Fannie Mae (the government’s mortgage-loan …
Issue: January-February 2022
Cinema Veritas
… In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class … mutant” course given by Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics, and … among faculty members from a number of departments gave rise to a formal Film Studies Committee sponsored by VES. …
Issue: November-December 2005
On the University's Agenda
… As the academic year ended, University leaders in various … International Harvard Allston In a briefing for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at its May 6 meeting, President … would ultimately serve other Harvard buildings as they arise nearby. Bioengineering One tenant for that science …
Issue: July-August 2008
A Higher Degree of Responsibility
… economic inequality, climate change, and riven politics, the role of capitalist enterprise has come into question—at least when defined solely in …
Issue: March-April 2023
They Said...
… Serious rhetoric prevailed for much of this Commencement, not yet seven weeks past the post-Boston Marathon bombing manhunt that shut the city … and the foundations of our nation’s research enterprise.” Faust reviewed the university-public research …
Issue: July-August 2013
Driving on I-95
… I grew up in a town of roads—roads that forked into obscurity, curved around mountain edges, fatal to deer and the neighbor’s dog. Roads that ran parallel to old stone … I could ride my three-geared red boys’ bike in the safety of our development, up and down driveways, in figure eights …
"We tend to over-intellectualize everything."
… always say that. I wouldn't know—I didn't even have the option of dating. There were basically two types of Harvard men: the cool guys who wore baseball caps and …
Issue: March-April 2003
Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal
… phones and credit cards and televisions and computers; from the infrastructure of cities; from sensor-equipped buildings, trains, buses, … from our mother and one from our father—that together comprise 6 billion base pairs,” Quackenbush continues, “a number …
Issue: March-April 2014
Back to Basics
… In the liner notes to the John Adams Earbox, 10 compact discs of works, primarily orchestral, by John Adams '69, A.M. '72, … be stimulated by another's discovery. Minimalism was a profound breath of fresh air in a world of increasingly …
Language Learner
… Before I went to Madrid, friends offered their stories of time spent abroad. One described the … de Buen Retiro without sunscreen, only to be duly surprised at how they’d been burned. To a Harvard student …
Issue: November-December 2018
Man, Mongoose, and Machine
… Standing outside a Sri Lankan army base in the spring of 2007, Thrishantha Nanayakkara mapped an entire … on his computer. A mongoose hitched to a robot did most of the work. Courtesy of Thrishantha Nanayakkara Two linked …
Issue: September-October 2008
The Tao of Crew
… Click-boom-sssshhh. Click-boom-sssshhh --amid the accolades and hardships of academic life, nothing else has so defined my Harvard … up their slides to prepare for the next stroke. Some form of this rhythm is present during every stroke taken by a …
Poised for Partnerships
… The new dean of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been in his post for … in Allston, where the school’s new building will begin to rise this coming summer , with a probable occupancy date in …
Off the Shelf
… The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health, by Ellen J. Langer, professor of psychology (Ballantine, $28). The author … of the problems that concern Michèle Lamont in terms of crises afflicting liberal democracy, a professor of law and …
Issue: September-October 2023