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Arts & Culture
Curios and curiouser
With exhibits including a dodo, fish mummified in pearl, and a ‘King Kong’-connected Komodo, ‘discovering the stories is one of the best jobs’
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Health
The healing power of gene therapy
How researchers are seeing their work changing lives — from restoring children’s hearing to saving a baby born with a fatal disease
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Nation & World
Is it time to start cutting red tape on government programs?
Journalist’s new book argues ‘administrative burden’ unfairly hits nation’s most vulnerable hardest, suggests solutions
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Nation & World
Old global order has been ‘ruptured.’ What will new one look like?
Law School initiative examines U.S. national security, role of Congress, emergence of AI in bid to prepare future leaders amid seismic shifts
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Science & Tech
One effort to safeguard humanity: AI ‘constitutions’
Berkman Klein Center heard calls to keep models ‘honest, helpful, harmless.’ It’s a work in progress.
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Work & Economy
Dumbest question is the one you never ask, says Amazon CEO
AI competition – among companies and in the labor market – also on Jassy’s mind in HBS talk
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Nation & World
Democracy? Some founders were skeptical.
Historians detail how, why Constitution became (and remains) work in progress
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Arts & Culture
Why John Coltrane still matters
Jazz experts, scholars detail how iconic saxophonist, who would have turned 100 this year, reshaped most American musical genre
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Science & Tech
Chatbot attachment issues
When AI companions get a personality update, some users respond with grief, study finds
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Arts & Culture
What ‘good luck’ means to a coal miner
Berlin artist explores labor, pride, and unsung heroes of Germany’s ‘economic miracle’ in Harvard exhibit
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Work & Economy
Record 38% of new vehicle sales to be EVs in 2030, study finds
Report sees strong growth despite recent loss of federal incentives
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Nation & World
You like Ike. But AI may help campaigns figure how to ensure you actually vote
Strategists predict powerful new technology will bring seismic shifts in U.S. political life
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Arts & Culture
What it’s really like to be young
Harvard faculty recommend books that capture youth in all its joy and agony
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Nation & World
Linda Bilmes is doing the math
Kennedy School budget analyst has made it her life’s mission to elucidate the heavy toll of war: ‘If we don’t account for something, we don’t value it.’
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Science & Tech
Is there a philosopher in the house?
Tech insiders call for humanist-scientist discourse amid ‘Copernican moment’ of AI age
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Science & Tech
Can you tell an amorphophallus from an aspergillus?
Word nerds, classicists, and botanists, it’s your time to shine in etymology quiz inspired by Div School book
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Health
How did her sister become so sick so fast?
Joan Brugge’s decadeslong professional fight against cancer began when she tried to make sense of a tragedy
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Nation & World
When everything is politics on campus
Sociologist Neil Gross argues polarization undermining education opportunities, lays out how students might change things
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Nation & World
Where U.S. has lost ground since 9/11
FDNY chief, admiral who survived Pentagon attack, Time journalist say decline in national unity since then is perhaps most damaging problem
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Health
Who needs opioids?
HSDM team explores how artificial intelligence could help clinicians tailor pain treatment to individual patients
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Health
Does having a bad dream make you a bad person?
Psychologist breaks down what those negative night narratives might be trying to tell you
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Health
Has pancreatic cancer met its match?
Frontline researcher sees newly approved medication as ‘critical first step’ toward transformation of care
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Science & Tech
What it takes to solve math’s toughest problems
Logic skills, yes, but also two seemingly incompatible traits: Confidence and humility
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Nation & World
Has Homeland Security kept up with its mission?
Former DHS secretary says U.S. safer now than before 9/11, agency has largely successfully evolved with emerging threats
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Science & Tech
When the sea steals homes and jobs
Along West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, Salata Institute research is helping communities weigh excruciating choices
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Health
More evidence that mass shootings are suicidal acts
New research finds national peaks for suicides, gun rampages take place within days of each other in summer
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Nation & World
Survey of young researchers raises concerns over future of science in U.S.
Fewer planning careers in academy, nation, and more doubt value of Ph.D. amid policy shifts in funding, international students
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Nation & World
A new diplomacy for 21st century as economic, political, tech power shifts
New Harvard Kennedy School program to focus on emerging issues, building bench of professionals, scholarship on negotiation, building and managing ties
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Campus & Community
Dustin Tingley named vice provost for advances in learning
He will lead University efforts in pedagogical innovation, digital education, and ways tech can support teaching, lifelong learning, research
