2 stories tagged ‘Shopping’

Shopping in, and for, the Square

By Katie Koch, Harvard Staff Writer / December 3, 2010

Dozens of staff, faculty, and students — along with local business owners and Harvard President Drew Faust — turned out at Forbes Plaza on Dec. 2 to kick off Crimson Shops Local, an annual effort by the University and the Harvard Square Business Association to encourage shopping nearby for the holidays.

Tags: Black Ink/Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe/Christine Heenan/Christmas/Crimson Cash/Crimson Shops Local/Drew Faust/Forbes Plaza/Harvard Campus Services/Harvard LowKeys/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications/Harvard Square/Harvard Square Business Association/Holiday/Holidays/Katie Koch/Shop/Shopping
Categories: Campus & Community, In the Community

Wandering mind not a happy mind

By Steve Bradt, Harvard Staff Writer / November 11, 2010

People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind wandering typically makes them unhappy, according to research by Harvard psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert.

Tags: Conversation/Daniel T. Gilbert/Eating/Exercising/Future/Happiness/iPhone/Matthew A. Killingsworth/Mind-Wandering/Not Being Present/Past/Psychology/Science/Sex/Shopping/Steve Bradt/Walking/Watching television/Web app
Categories: HarvardScience, Life Sciences