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Nation
How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
New York Times tech reporter examines case of face-recognition software firm, repercussions for privacy, civil liberties, particularly involving law enforcement, social media.
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Arts & Culture
Like a Kardashian of the Roosevelt era
Student-written, -directed musical explores, celebrates life of Teddy’s daughter Alice Lee, cousin Eleanor.
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Campus & Community
Peabody Museum charts progress on repatriation
NAGPRA project staff doubled to support three-year commitment for consultation, return of all ancestors and associated funerary belongings.
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Campus & Community
Graham Blanks can really motor
First-place finishes pile up for rising cross-country star, who talks about team, goals — and that time he passed the lead car.
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Campus & Community
Your period started. Of course the tampon dispenser is empty.
All-too-familiar frustration for women sparked campaign to make menstrual products in campus bathrooms as basic an expectation as toilet paper.
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Nation
Why so many blue-collar workers drifted away from Democratic Party
New book puts mid-century unions at center of Rust Belt identity and social life. Shifting economy splintered community and fostered disillusionment.
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Work & Economy
‘Shark Tank’s’ Kevin O’Leary talks startups and setbacks
The celebrity entrepreneur explained what it takes for a founder to develop a product or service, raise capital from investors, and grow from a small business into a larger enterprise.
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Science & Tech
How to prepare for a trip to space
Astronauts spend years training for missions. How do commercial travelers get ready?
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Campus & Community
Hearth and home — in Stone Age
Motivating Professor Amy Elizabeth Clark’s interest is what she calls a “feminist approach” to studying human history.
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Science & Tech
Cellular atlas guides new understanding of brain
New technology gives voice to pathologic changes in neurodegenerative illnesses like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.
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Health
How being stigmatized can harm health
Professor of Psychology Mark L. Hatzenbuehler’s course, “Stigma, Discrimination, and Health,” examines the wide-ranging problem that touches on sexuality, body weight, immigration, and poverty.
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Science & Tech
Who will fight for the frogs?
Indian herpetologists bring their life’s work to Harvard just as study shows a world hostile to the fate of amphibians.
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Health
Hot yoga potent antidepressant in study
In a randomized controlled clinical trial, heated yoga sessions led to reduced depressive symptoms in adults with moderate-to-severe depression.
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Health
Erasing reminders of stigmatizing, traumatic past
Harvard Medical School-Mass General dermatologists use lasers to remove gang, trafficking tattoos, stigmatizing and often traumatic reminders of the past.
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Campus & Community
Using math as bridge within disciplines
Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications welcomes new director, a Harvard alum who will explore “beautiful, deep” interactions between mathematics and science.
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Health
Worries about depressed men and IVF are unfounded
New study reveals no correlation between anxiety, regardless of antidepressant use, and IVF outcomes or live birth rate.
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Arts & Culture
At 60, Carpenter Center takes a rare look back
Four shows inspired by building’s iconic architecture are re-staged to mark anniversary.
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Campus & Community
Funny thing happened on way to med school
Years at College proved formative for the new women’s ice hockey coach. Now she hopes to help her players find their paths.
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Campus & Community
Harvard reports strong financial position, yet urges caution
University expenses outpace revenue for fiscal year 2023.
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Nation & World
Even war has rules, so why none for espionage?
Berkman Klein Center affiliate points up the need for a legal framework to govern peacetime intelligence operations.
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Nation
The rise of ‘incels’
Psychologist examines genesis of online groups of sexually embittered men, roots in evolutionary behavior, why some turn violent.
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Science & Tech
When future weather outside is frightful — hot, that is
At the “Future of Cities” event, panelists explained how rising temperatures will impact different economic levels in various parts of world.
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Work & Economy
Gender pay gap? Culprit is ‘greedy work’
In “Career and Family” Claudia Goldin tracks evolution through 20th-century gains to era of earning inequality that forces harsh life choices.
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Campus & Community
What a difference a year makes
Students who described themselves in three words last fall get a chance to change their answers.
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Science & Tech
A DEEPer (squared) dive into AI
Machine learning techniques give scientists faster returns of high-quality organ images.
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Nation
Murthy says social media hurting kids, time for government, tech firms to help
Surgeon general calls mental health risks “pivotal issue in public health.”
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Arts & Culture
You’re writing it wrong
The Gazette spoke with Todd Rogers about his new book, “Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World.”
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Science & Tech
More solar energy needed, but clearing forests for panels may not be way to do it
Harvard-led analysis suggests incentives to save carbon-absorbing trees, siting projects on rooftops, developed areas.
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Arts & Culture
Call it ‘old money aesthetic’ or ‘coastal grandma’ — it all comes back to preppy
Fashion podcaster traces quintessential American look from campuses to catwalks.