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Nation & World
Portrait of the revolutionary as a young man
Jonathan M. Hansen’s biography of Fidel Castro’s early years aims to “get past the demonization and celebration and recover the complex person in the middle.”
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Campus & Community
One thing to change: Question that status quo
I. Glenn Cohen explains the dangers of assuming that the way things are is how they should be.
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Science & Tech
Visual forensics that can detect fake text
Researchers at the SEAS and IBM Research developed a better way to help people detect AI-generated text.
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Campus & Community
Perfection in miniature
Time and knowledge may be the most powerful fertilizers for the Arnold Arboretum’s Bonsai and Penjing Collection, which houses 43 miniature — and ancient — trees.
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Work & Economy
Social spending on kids yields biggest bang for the buck
Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based institute of social scientists and policy analysts, looked at a range of social programs to determine which provided the most bang for the government buck, and spending on children came out on top — particularly in the case of disadvantaged kids.
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Science & Tech
Using body heat to speed healing
To speeding up wound healing, researchers have developed active adhesive dressings based on heat-responsive hydrogels that are mechanically active, stretchy, tough, highly adhesive, and antimicrobial.
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Nation & World
Message in the dust
An unusual find during a Harvard Summer School program archaeological dig teaches students the fundamentals at one of Peru’s most important sites.
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Health
Want to quit smoking? There’s the e-cigarette
A new study provides critical population-level evidence demonstrating that using e-cigarettes daily helps U.S. smokers to quit smoking cigarettes.
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Arts & Culture
Out of many, one — band, that is
Members from the Harvard Summer Pops Band share how they became part of the band.
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Work & Economy
A social-networking website for student travelers
Harvard students Luke Heine and Raphael Rouvinov built a new student travel meet up program, Summer Playbook, to help college students connect with each other all over the world. The app has drawn seed money from Silicon Valley.
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Health
Growing support for plant-based diet
A new meta-analysis shows that people who follow predominantly plant-based diets with greater adherence have a 23 percent lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes than those who follow these diets with lower adherence.
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Campus & Community
One thing to change: Embrace mindfulness
Professor of psychology Ellen Langer applies mindfulness to absolute truths.
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Campus & Community
Helping teachers learn
A preview of a Project Zero Classroom (July 22-26). Teachers from all over the country and the world come to Harvard Graduate School of Education to learn new practices to help students engage and learn at Project Zero Classroom.
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Science & Tech
A new spin on an old question
Understanding how DNA and proteins interact — or fail to — could help answer fundamental biological questions about human health and disease.
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Science & Tech
A way to make Mars habitable
Researchers from Harvard University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, and the University of Edinburgh suggest that regions of the Martian surface could be made habitable with a material — silica aerogel — that would mimic Earth’s atmospheric greenhouse effect.
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Campus & Community
Interim faculty deans named for Winthrop House
Mark Gearan and Mary Herlihy-Gearan have been named interim faculty deans for Winthrop House.
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Campus & Community
Need a book for your beach bag?
Harvard faculty and staff members share what they’re reading this summer.
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Campus & Community
’Tis the season for al fresco
A listing of about three dozen suggestions for al fresco dining and drinking around Harvard Square.
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Science & Tech
Harvard reflects on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s moon walk
A trio of Harvard astronomers reflect on the impact of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, then and now.
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Science & Tech
Beneath the surface
New study debunks long-held theory that dolphins had ridged skin, which helped them swim faster.
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Campus & Community
The first moon walk
New mini-exhibits at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture feature lunar rocks from the Apollo 12 moon mission.
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Health
It takes a community to make compost
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum partners with local businesses on environmentally responsible composting program.
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Health
Treating runaway health costs
Study led by Harvard researchers finds that a long-term trial of a capped-payment system encouraged preventative care and discouraged unnecessary spending
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Science & Tech
Solving a statistical nightmare
Researchers have discovered why the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific appeared to warm twice as much as the global average, while the Northwest Pacific cooled over several decades.
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Work & Economy
How African American culture bred business success
A new book by Georgia professor and new Extension School grad student looks at how African American culture bred business success, and the lessons that this offers today.
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Campus & Community
Intensely personal, yet universal
A total of 160 classes comprise the College’s new program in General Education, which launches this fall.
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Health
Study finds high-risk pregnancies persist despite screening
A new study reports that although the number has decreased, women taking isotretinoin — an acne medication known to cause birth defects — have continued to get pregnant even after the implementation of special distribution restrictions.
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Campus & Community
Singing in the rain
Students from a first-year think tank led a successful effort to plant a pair of rain gardens on campus.
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Nation & World
Bacow sits down with lawmakers
Larry Bacow visited the nation’s capital this week to meet with members of Congress to discuss a range of University priorities, including the effects of federal immigration policy on faculty and students at Harvard and at universities across the nation. The visit comes on the heels of a letter Bacow sent to Secretary of State…
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Science & Tech
Are we alone in the universe?
Harvard astronomer Laura Kreidberg studies the atmospheres of extrasolar planets to search for signs of life.
