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Science & Tech
His dream? To see two pub regulars arguing over existence of infinity in nature
Sean Carroll’s videos explaining fundamental ideas in modern physics are becoming a book trilogy.
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Campus & Community
Picture this
Over a two-day workshop, students created a charcoal drawing of someone important to them.
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Health
More mindfulness may be part of the answer for anxiety-ridden U.S.
Researcher hopes findings signal new treatment option amid surge in mental health cases.
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Campus & Community
Brenda Tindal named inaugural FAS chief campus curator
Brenda Tindal will be the first chief campus curator for Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced today.…
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Health
Migraine history may be marker of pregnancy complications
Brigham and Women’s study finds increased odds of preterm delivery, other complications.
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Campus & Community
John Bayley Fox Jr., who helped shape modern Harvard, dies at 86
John Bayley Fox Jr. ’59, who helped open Harvard’s doors to women and people of color from 1967 until he retired in 2007, died Nov. 27, 2022, after a long illness.
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Arts & Culture
Plea from 1980s New York: ‘Please Stay Home’
Darrel Ellis exhibition at Carpenter Center looks back yet feels of the moment with its themes of family history, identity, loss.
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Nation & World
Lessons of Roe, 50 years later
Speakers at Radcliffe conference look at divisive, fraught history, predict where legal battles go next.
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Science & Tech
Why you wear what you wear
In a new study, researchers uncover personality traits behind people’s preferences when making fashion decisions.
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Work & Economy
The American dream costs more than $29,000 a year
Journalist Rick Wartzman talks about his new book, “Still Broke: Walmart’s Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism.”
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Campus & Community
Towering figure in organic chemistry
Yoshito Kishi was a towering figure in organic chemistry renowned for his syntheses of complex natural products.
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Health
Has first person to live to be 150 been born?
Harvard researchers reported that they can age and then restore youth to lab mice, using a gene cocktail that has already restored vision in mice.
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Arts & Culture
Free Thursday evenings? Like theater? Mixed media? Dance?
The ArtsThursdays initiative increases accessibility and availability of Harvard arts for University affiliates and the wider community.
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Campus & Community
Maybe it’s Remy’s world, and the rest of us just live in it
With Remy the cat as their model, Graduate School of Design students learned how animal life can encourage empathy in design.
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Campus & Community
Addressing our legacy
Inaugural Vice Provost for Special Projects Sara Bleich gets started in her role, and discusses what’s ahead for the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2023–2024
The rents noted have been reviewed and endorsed by the Faculty Advisory Committee on Harvard University Housing and will take effect for the 2023-2024 leasing season.
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Health
Abortion law, suicide rate study adds to raging debate. But are we missing point?
A Harvard epidemiologist says that research tends to be weaponized on both sides, overshadowing the mental health needs of those with unwanted pregnancies.
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Campus & Community
An exhibit with legs
Harvard’s Pacific octopus specimen has lived on campus since about 1883. Now, fully restored, the model hangs in the Northwest Labs building.
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Campus & Community
Listening to air, water
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discusses how she blends work and climate change activism.
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Health
Your memory may be better than you think
A new study suggests that people are also surprisingly good at knowing where and when they saw those certain objects.
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Health
A laugh a day keeps the doctor away?
No one knows why we do it, but it’s free, has no known side effects, and experts say it lifts spirits, lowers stress, makes us feel connected
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Nation & World
How total abortion ban puts maternal health at risk
A new study finds high rates of serious complications among Salvadoran patients who were forced to carry severely malformed fetuses to term.
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Nation & World
They can think, feel pain, love. Isn’t it time animals had rights?
An excerpt from “Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility” by Martha C. Nussbaum, M.A. ’71, Ph.D. ’75.
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Campus & Community
Jennifer Coolidge named Hasty’s Woman of the Year
Jennifer Coolidge has been named as the recipient of its 2023 Woman of the Year Award, Hasty Pudding Theatricals announced today.
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Health
Really need to start exercising but hate it? Just move
Health professionals say any regular activity is useful. If it’s been a while, ramp up ‘like a crockpot: low and slow’
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Nation & World
Don’t give Russia an inch, former U.S. diplomat says
Marie Yovanovitch makes a case for standing by Ukraine as the war drags on, warning that defeat would embolden Putin and other dictators.
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Science & Tech
An evangelist of physics
Australian physicist demystifies the experimental side of the field and recalls forgotten pioneers.
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Health
Doing medical rounds on streets, alleys of Boston
Tracy Kidder’s “Rough Sleepers” follows Jim O’Connell, who provides Boston’s homeless with health care.
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Work & Economy
Forget debt-ceiling drama. There are bigger, likelier problems
Harvard economist says political feuds come and go, but inflation, weak growth, and geopolitical tensions pose real global recession threat.
