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The Marketplace of Perceptions
Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, strange facts, odd observations that the prevailing wisdom could not explain...March-April 2006Print Section: Features...
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Fueling Our Future
Our demand for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity for...May-June 2006Additional infographics may be viewed in...
View ArticlePsychiatry by Prescription
By the time he reached his early thirties, James was a promising scientist who had all the makings of an academic star. He had earned a stream...July-August 2006Print Section: Features...
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Summers in Summary
Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for framing the University’s future in visionary terms.September-October 2006Print Section: Features...
View ArticleSeamus Heaney, Digging with the Pen
One of the most revealing questions you can ask about any poet has to do with his sense of responsibility. To whom or what does he hold himself...November-December 2006...
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Ken's Story
A “rapidly developing revolution in cancer treatment” has prompted David G. Nathan, M.D., president emeritus of Dana-Farber Cancer...January-February 2007Print Section: Features...
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Reviewing "Reality"
The scene, at least the one framed by the family-room proscenium of the television screen, remains indelible. President George W. Bush emerged...March-April 2007Print Section: Features...
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End of the Melting Pot?
In 1986, after receiving amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, Jorge Montes began looking for a good place to raise his family...Near Winterhaven, California, an official sign faces...
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A Scholar in the House
Tradition and the twenty-first century were tangled together in Barker Center’s Thompson Room on the afternoon of February 11, when Drew...July-August 2007Print Section: Features...
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Bricks & Politics
Every year, on a hot summer day, 10 Boston-area architects pile into a van together and drive around for hours looking for beauty. Lately, at...September-October 2007 Architecture bricks-politics.html...
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The Undiscovered Planet
All images courtesy of Roberto Kolter, unless otherwise noted Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton—these are familiar names. During a...November-December 2007Print Section: Features...
View ArticleA Spectrum of Disorders
When Alison finally heard her son Matthew’s diagnosis, she had already spent a night on the Web, terrifying herself, as she puts it...January-February 2008Beginning April 18, 2011, PBS...
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The Physics of the Familiar
Photograph by Jim Harrison Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan “Just because something is familiar doesn’t mean you understand it. That...Lakshminarayanan MahadevanPhotograph by Jim Harrison...
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Shedding Light on Life
The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects a cell by stealing through its membrane.May-June 2008[extra:Multimedia]View...
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Unequal America
Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poorJuly-August 2008 unequal-america.html Web App: House and/or Class Year (used in My Magazine)...
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Works and Woods
Architecture and ecology in Japan...Art historian Yukio Lippit in the Japanese merchant's house at the Boston Children's Museum.Photograph by Jim HarrisonSeptember-October 2008[extra:Multimedia...
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Animals Speak Color
Kit Reed introduces an exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History that reveals the different roles color plays in the animal and plant kingdoms.Tail of the panther chameleon, Furcifer...
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The War and the Writ
In the fight against terrorists, habeas corpus has played a key role in efforts to balance civil liberties against national security.January-February 2009 Social Sciences the-war-the-writDepartment:...
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The Developing Child
With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.A classroom in Peñalolén (a neighborhood of Santiago, Chile) where "Un Buen Comienzo" is being implementedAldo...
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Untangling the Brain
Three Harvard scholars trained in chemistry and physics pursue innovative approaches and tools that address problems in neuroscience.A human fibroblast—part of the body’s connective tissue—sits on a...
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