Tag: society

  • Nation & World

    A diet that’s healthy for people and the environment

    Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, takes a closer look at a diet that is as healthy for you as it is the planet,

    6 minutes
    Food on a plate.
  • Nation & World

    The mystery of the medicine man

    A paper published earlier this year argues that shamanism develops as specialists compete to provide magical services to people in their communities, and the outcome is a set of traditions that hacks people’s psychological biases to convince them that they can control the uncertain.

    5 minutes
    A shaman squatting
  • Nation & World

    Turning the brain green

    Harvard neurosurgeon Ann-Christine Duhaime thinks a better understanding of the brain’s reward system might help encourage greener living.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Market dominance

    Free-market thinking now pervades most facets of everyday life. In “What Money Can’t Buy,” rock-star lecturer and philosopher Michael Sandel asks readers to consider what they really value — and whether some things shouldn’t come with a price.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How Social Networks are like Carbon – Nicholas Christakis – Harvard Thinks Big

    Nicholas Christakis Professor of Sociology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Sociology (Harvard Medical School) and and Professor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School)

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Learning to love the irrational mind

    Just how much should we allow “human nature” to guide our politics — and our everyday decision making? Columnist David Brooks and a trio of Harvard analysts debated new findings on the unconscious mind during a panel discussion.

    5 minutes