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Work & Economy
High point for market fundamentalism? Would you guess Clinton?
Naomi Oreskes traces the decadeslong campaign to get Americans to put their faith in free market as a force for positive change over government.
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Work & Economy
More turbulence likely ahead after bank collapses
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers says regulators have significant tools at their disposal, need to be vigilant of specific vulnerabilities.
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Health
Faster, fitter?
Not really, says Spaulding Rehab expert. When you go for a walk, focus on this instead.
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Nation & World
Prospect dim for Biden plan to bolster Medicare, health policy expert says
President Biden’s budget highlighted the projected Medicare shortfalls and proposed a solution, almost certainly dead on arrival in the Republican-held House. Health care policy expert John McDonough takes a look at what’s real and what’s politics.
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Work & Economy
Bailouts for everyone?
Harvard Law School professor Daniel Tarullo, a former Federal Reserve Board member, explains the fallout from the bank failures and how they could complicate the Fed’s efforts to curb inflation.
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Health
Strong evidence that yoga protects against frailty
A review of 33 studies found that yoga improved known predictors of longevity, including walking speed and leg strength.
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Science & Tech
Racing to catalog, study deep-sea biodiversity
Researchers find five new species of hard-to-access creatures amid shortage of knowledge, concerns growing commercial interest may cause extinctions.
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Nation
Talking with kids about existential threat of climate change
Climate change talk may ignite fears for children, guilt for parents, but focusing on solutions may be the key, experts at HGSE webinar say.
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Nation & World
The art of self-healing
“There is this culture that doctors are supposed to be perfect … and that culture makes it harder for us to ask for help.”
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Arts & Culture
What set them off were the bodies on wall
“The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood, M.A. ’62, whose speculative fiction about women and power has made her both a beloved feminist icon and a repeated object of censorship, returned to Harvard to speak at Sanders Theatre.
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Nation & World
New day for Afro-Latin American Studies
The University Consortium for Afro-Latin American Studies will bring together researchers from Global North and Global South, something that has never been done before.
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Science & Tech
A 14-year incubation
Sam Wattrus ’16, Ph.D. ’22, becomes the first human developmental and regenerative biology concentrator to establish an independent research lab.
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Nation & World
Do phones belong in schools?
Banning cellphones may help protect classroom focus, but school districts need to stay mindful of students’ sense of connection, experts say.
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Nation & World
Not-so-innocent bystanders
Géraldine Schwarz discusses her memoir, “Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe,” with Abadir Ibrahim and Cass Sunstein at Harvard Law School event.
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Campus & Community
Mayors get personal over coffee and eggs
Michelle Wu, Sumbul Siddiqui were the featured guests at Harvard basketball coach’s monthly power breakfast.
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Campus & Community
‘To understand the world but also to change the world’
Arthur Kleinman pays tribute to beloved student with new class that explores wide-ranging intellectual contributions of Partners In Health co-founder Paul Farmer.
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Campus & Community
‘One of the best traditions of all time’
First-years are welcomed to their new homes with traditional displays of House pride.
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Nation & World
Russia seems vulnerable. Is Putin?
Russian historians, political and cultural analysts assess the strength of President Vladimir Putin’s regime since the war in Ukraine began, and lay out what could be in store in 2023.
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Campus & Community
Anthony Gervin Oettinger, 93
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 7, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Anthony Gervin Oettinger was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Howard Curtis Berg, 87
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 7, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Howard Curtis Berg was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Ophelia Dahl to receive 2023 Radcliffe Medal
Ophelia Dahl will receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 26, honoring her work advancing global access to health care and championing rights of the poor.
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Science & Tech
Why we need female mice in neuroscience research
Researchers found that female mice, despite ongoing hormonal fluctuations, exhibit exploratory behavior that is more stable than that of their male peers, countering the belief that the hormone cycle in females causes behavioral variation that could throw off results.
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Nation & World
Dad’s clueless, Mom’s fried. Maybe there’s a better way.
Harvard grad who wrote “Fair Play” explains the perception gap between moms and dads highlighted by new Pew study.
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Campus & Community
HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard team up to expand access to Black history
The HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Library will work together to deepen capacity for the digitization, discovery, and preservation of African American history collections held in HBCU libraries and archives.
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Health
Evolution hurts sometimes
The same skeletal changes that allowed humans to walk upright make us vulnerable to knee osteoarthritis as we age, human evolutionary biologist says.
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Campus & Community
Random roommates turned best friends
Harvard students who’ve entered housing lottery solo have a reassuring message for first-years: You just might find your best friend.
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Arts & Culture
Deep roots of multicultural American art
New Harvard Art Museums show explores interactions between European, Indigenous, and African civilizations in works from Spanish Empire.
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Arts & Culture
Time for homework. Where’s my Nintendo Switch?
Games have inspired dozens of movies and TV shows recently. A new English class studies growing critical scholarship on the subject.
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Health
Study signals heart trouble for young adults
Researchers find hypertension, diabetes, and obesity worsened across the board in study group of people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, with racial and ethnic disparities present.
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Health
Young people are hurting, and their parents are feeling it
Anxiety and depression top parental concerns about their children, a Pew survey finds. Harvard experts offer advice.
