Tag: Mesoamerica

  • Nation & World

    Apocalypse now? Hardly

    During a sometimes tongue-in-cheek lecture on Wednesday, Professor David Carrasco discussed the historical origins of humankind’s periodic preoccupations with the apocalypse.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Language made visible

    New Harvard lecture series, “Visible Language,” explores the origins of the written word across diverse ages and cultures, its origins marked by a “diverse oneness.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hey squash, time for your close-up

    Bruce Smith, of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, discusses the rise of agriculture in a talk at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mesoamerican health plan

    Jaime Sepulveda, former Mexican health official and a current director at the Gates Foundation, outlined plans to improve health for the poorest residents of Mesoamerica.

    3 minutes