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Quality Care
As I read David Cutler's important new book on how to deal with the nation's most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler...
The Education of a Poker Player
When I entered Harvard as a freshman in 1974, poker was less prominent in popular culture than it is today. There wasn’t much commercial...
by Aaron Brown
Karts Get Some Respect
Stephan Wilkinson ’58, automotive editor at Popular Science, is said to be a longtime expert on the way men entertain themselves when no...
Growth is Good
Economists have always been very good at detailing the material consequences of modern economic growth. It makes us taller: we are perhaps seven...
by J. Bradford Delong
Off the Shelf
The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved, by Robbins Burling, Ph.D. ’58 (Oxford University Press, $29.95). A persuasive, urbane, and...
Chapter & Verse
Dale Higbee hopes to learn the source of a comment by Archibald MacLeish: “We know all the answers; it’s the questions we...
They Do It So Much in New England
He was an admiralty lawyer whose second career was to effect improvements in public affairs“meddling,” as he put it. CCB: The...
Chapter & Verse
F. Markoe Rivinus requests the title and the other words of a song he heard in the late 1950s; he remembers two lines: “You ain’t no...
Meeting the Multiverse
It began with Isaac Newton. With the publication of his Principia in 1687, Newton became the first scientist to demonstrate that nature’s...
Caviar and Heather
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire, by Richard Adams Carey ’73 (Counterpoint, $26) is a captivatingly...
Better Living through Evolution
François Jacob, one of the pioneers in molecular biology, was interviewed a few years ago for an educational video now used in...