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Scharon Harding in Ars Technica: A 200-foot AM radio tower has been missing for at least a week, leaving an Alabama radio station in a financial crisis and on a
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Mir Imran has a unique background in medicine and engineering, which became the foundation of his work in innovation and company building. After attending medical school, Mir began his career
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Walter Johnson in n + 1: People would later say that it began with the statement issued by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee and thirty-four other campus groups after the massacre
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Carole Hooven in The Free Press: Since early December, the end of my 20-year career teaching at Harvard has been the subject of articles, op-eds, tweets from a billionaire, and even a congressional hearing.
Leila Sloman in Quanta Magazine: Sarah Hart has always had an eye for the covert ways mathematics permeates other fields. As a child, she was struck by the ubiquity of the
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By Nick Corasaniti in The New York Times: In a presidential election year, no glowing rectangle in Iowa or New Hampshire is safe from an endless deluge of political ads.
by Oliver Waters: In last month’s column I criticized the ‘degrowth’ movement, which essentially proposes that we should produce and consume less stuff. This notion has some merit of course
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…and we’ve been ignoring them completely David Introcaso writes in The Hill: The social cost of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, considered the single most important measure in addressing the climate
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‘Badass Detective’: Matt Hutchinson is a curious and determined Bay Area detective with a knack for solving decades-long cold cases in his free time. In the seven years Hutchinson has
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Arjun Sharma in Undark: IN THE 1960s and 1970s, researchers offered financial incentives to patients to get them to lose weight, quit smoking, and abstain from alcohol. To some degree, it worked. But
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by Thomas R. Wells: Americans dominate global (social) media and one result of this is that the rest of the world is overexposed to Americans’ ideas, and also to their
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Max Krupnick in Harvard Magazine: MOST AMERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Parks declined to cede her seat in the white
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