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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.
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Nation & World
Nudging donors toward more effective giving
A study by Harvard psychologists finds that preserving personal charity preferences and offering targeted matching funds help.
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Health
Why did so many buy COVID misinformation? It works like magic.
Panelists at a Harvard Law talk examined the surprising parallels between magic and misinformation.
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Health
The best thing about the Mediterranean diet? It doesn’t taste like a diet.
Olive oil – maybe not your mom’s – is a good place to start, says Chan School’s Walter Willett. But don’t be afraid to experiment.
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Campus & Community
Bob Odenkirk named Hasty’s Man of the Year
The actor, comedian, and filmmaker will receive his Pudding Pot at a celebratory roast on February 2.
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Arts & Culture
Life seeking answers at Giza, Nubia
Egyptologist George Reisner transformed the field, and a biography by Peter Der Manuelian explores not just his career, but his life during what some consider the golden age of Egyptian archaeology.
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Campus & Community
No stranger to improvisation
Bass player, composer, vocalist Devon Gates merges anthropology, music in Harvard-Berklee program.
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Health
Study finds ‘startling’ inequities in end-of-life opioid treatment
Investigators at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reported Black and Hispanic patients who had poor-prognosis cancer were less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications.
