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Elena Kagan’s friends assure us that she’s not gay. “I’ve known her for most of her adult life and I know she’s straight,” Kagan’s roommate in law school told Politico. […]
Ever since Niall Ferguson was a boy, and still to this day, the Harvard historian says he has looked to the BBC’s Dr. Who as his superhero role model. Why? […]
The relationship between literary talent and literary fame is not so interesting to discuss (being so much discussed, and yet being uniquely subjective). Why should we care if the writers […]
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If the U.S. can use its political and technological advances to grow its way out of this crisis, then the future could be rosy. The other option is much grimmer.
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The country sees its relationship with the U.S. marriage on the rocks and “is actively looking, if not for another partner, then certainly for a divorce from this somewhat unreliable […]
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There are six killer applications that made the West dominant over the past 500 years. But is that age now over?
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Those with historical understanding of past scenarios are likely to be better at visualizing what’s to come. After all, at the heart of the historian’s enterprise is the imagination
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A conversation with the Harvard University historian.
How connecting cutting-edge technologies with the people who need them the most is revolutionizing the traditional aid model and empowering communities to take charge of their own well-being.
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Harvard Business School professor Robert Eccles comments on a recent video interview with Gro Harlem Brundtland, a U.N. Special Envoy on Climate Change.
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Harvard Business School professor Robert Eccles comments on a recent video interview with Peter Brabeck, the Chairman of Nestle.
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A new program aims to make new and existing cities sustainable by tapping into their nervous systems.
Long before reality television challenged our faith in the sustainability of the human race, documentary films were an intriguing look into the minds and hearts of some fascinating subjects. By […]
“Where is everybody?” the physicist Enrico Fermi once famously asked, disappointed that aliens hadn’t contacted us yet. Over 50 years later, Fermi would feel even more snubbed. As Paul Davies […]
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“A photograph isn’t successful unless you capture the subject’s inner life.”
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Changing the Reverend’s image went hand in hand with revealing his inmost self through the camera.
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An unforgettable evening with the legendary jazz singer.
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The photographer talks about her favorite—and most difficult—subjects.
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Stop obsessing over lenses, and “make sure you have mentors.”
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Some photography sessions are so long, they induce “battle fatigue.” But just when artist and subject are about to quit, “the picture comes.”