Tag: Peter Davis

  • Nation & World

    Vietnam, the ongoing memory

    For students so young, an old war — captured in a history and literature course on Vietnam this fall — continues to have resonance and to provide “a punch in the gut.”

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ideas to improve the everyday

    All-star Harvard faculty members at “Harvard Thinks Big” dazzled and provoked their audience in 10-minute talks Thursday that framed major questions about happiness, stem cell growth, runaway obesity, and the exploding American prison population.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Thinking green, and thinking big

    At the first Harvard Thinks Green, six Harvard professors gathered at Sanders Theatre to seek big solutions for complex and potentially intractable problems such as climate change.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Stalking the ‘big idea’

    One of the organizers of the first “Harvard Thinks Big” session reflects on why the program that had 10 professors speak for 10 minutes about their one big idea proved so successful.

    4 minutes