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Arts & Culture
Science? Yes. Fiction? Maybe.
Sci-fi books recommended by faculty, staff probe AI, humanity, censorship
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Campus & Community
Harvard expands financial aid
New effort ensures that more undergraduates, especially from middle-income families, will receive support
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Nation & World
Want a less divisive America? Just a matter of trust.
Robert Putnam traces nation’s plummeting social connection and rocketing discord, offers way to start thinking of solution
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Arts & Culture
‘The Odyssey’ is having a moment. Again.
Classicist Greg Nagy on story’s epic appeal, his favorite translation, and ‘journey of the soul’ that awaits new readers
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Campus & Community
Getting into the swing of things
Students plan concert with saxophonist and composer Ted Nash that ends with enlightening dinner conversation
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Health
U.S. innovation ecosystem is envy of world. Here’s how it got started.
Economist who studies technological change looks at public-private research partnership amid rising questions on federal funding
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Arts & Culture
Showing that Black lives matter — everywhere
In a new book, music professor considers race in all its facets
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Nation & World
Number of those burdened by rental affordability hits record high
Public policy expert discusses possible ways to cut costs amid national housing crunch
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Campus & Community
The House that will be home
Housing Day — one of Harvard’s most beloved traditions — marks a milestone for first-years
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Campus & Community
5 things we learned this week
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Campus & Community
It’s going to get even harder to write (or at least type) like Sylvia Plath
Cambridge Typewriter, one of few shops left to buy, repair vintage machines, prepares to close doors after more than half a century
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Arts & Culture
On fiction, grief, and, most of all, ‘radical honesty’
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares with readers the story behind ‘Dream Count,’ a novel she was scared she’d never finish
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Nation & World
Johnny can read. Jane can read. But they may not fully comprehend.
Ed School panel looks at how to reverse declining scores on recent ‘Nation’s Report Card’
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Campus & Community
Rising econ star sheds light on power of exchange rates
Oleg Itskhoki, now a Clark Medalist, returns to Harvard
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Campus & Community
How to escape your silo (spoiler: friendship helps)
Co-authors of ‘What We Can’t Burn’ formed lasting bond even as they argued about best way to fight climate change
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Arts & Culture
Art as omen in turbulent times
In new book, Joseph Koerner dissects reaction to 3 works created during political unrest
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Arts & Culture
Every picture tells a story
Photographer Susan Meiselas shares how ‘44 Irving Street Cambridge, MA’ shaped her career
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Nation & World
NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development
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Arts & Culture
Wishing real world wasn’t starting to feel so much like her dystopian novel
Celeste Ng discusses new book about mother and son, how the personal becomes political — and vice versa
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Campus & Community
Telling apples from Apples
Harvard Library search tool will understand intent behind the terms
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Arts & Culture
Letting the portraits speak for themselves
New exhibit elevates overlooked voices as it explores hope, change, and how we see other
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Campus & Community
House pride from A to Z
Housing Day is more than a tradition, as first-years soon learn
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Science & Tech
Life-changing brain tech, but with a chilling caveat
Fellow’s paper draws from history to urge caution on brain-computer interfaces
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Health
Did a socially awkward scientist set back airborne disease control?
In talk on new book, Carl Zimmer theorizes key researcher’s discoveries were undercut by his personality
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Nation & World
How planned major U.S. foreign aid cuts expected to shake out abroad — and at home
Former diplomats see unnecessary deaths, lost opportunities for American corporations, workers, and diminished geopolitical influence
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Health
You went to the doctor and came out feeling worse
Psychologist who studied ‘medical gaslighting’ explains how caseload pressures contribute to the problem and when we should call it something else
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Nation & World
Americans used to move around a lot, chasing opportunity. No more.
Yoni Appelbaum argues legal, political hurdles over past 50 years have had troubling economic, social consequences
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Health
A dietary swap that could lengthen your life?
Study finds replacing butter with plant-based oils cuts premature death risk by 17 percent
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Campus & Community
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