Mexican program successful at reducing crippling health care costs
Seguro Popular, a Mexican health care program instituted in 2003, has already reduced crippling health care costs among poorer households, according to an evaluation conducted by researchers at Harvard...
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In 1900, renowned mathematician David Hilbert laid down a challenge to future generations: 23 handpicked mathematical problems, all difficult, all important, and all unsolved. Since then, countless...
View ArticleWhat are the”Hard Problems” in the social sciences?
Just over a century ago, one of the world’s leading mathematicians posed this question to a number of his colleagues: What are the most important unsolved questions in mathematics? The answers – which...
View ArticleNational Academy of Sciences awards honor to nine from Harvard
Nine Harvard faculty members are among 72 newly elected National Academy of Sciences members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in...
View ArticleData may not compute
Modern scholars are wrestling with a problem that ancient monks and early authors managed to master: how to keep their work accessible to future generations. While the books, papers, and journals of...
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Fueling the entrepreneurial spirit
“We’re not businesspeople, but we are entrepreneurs.” In a simple sentence, Harvard Professor Gary King both described the gulf that separates university faculty members from the business world and...
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Who needed a stapler?
In April, Eric Mazur, Harvard’s Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, and Gary King, the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, sold the startup company they had founded,...
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Harvard launches Arts and Sciences campaign
Michael D. Smith formally launched the $2.5 billion Harvard Campaign for Arts and Sciences on Saturday morning at a standing-room-only alumni event at Sanders Theatre. The gathering was followed by a...
View ArticleMexican program successful at reducing crippling health care costs
Seguro Popular, a Mexican health care program instituted in 2003, has already reduced crippling health care costs among poorer households, according to an evaluation conducted by researchers at...
View ArticlePosing the Big Questions
In 1900, renowned mathematician David Hilbert laid down a challenge to future generations: 23 handpicked mathematical problems, all difficult, all important, and all unsolved. Since then, countless...
View ArticleWhat are the”Hard Problems” in the social sciences?
Just over a century ago, one of the world’s leading mathematicians posed this question to a number of his colleagues: What are the most important unsolved questions in mathematics? The answers – which...
View ArticleNational Academy of Sciences awards honor to nine from Harvard
Nine Harvard faculty members are among 72 newly elected National Academy of Sciences members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in...
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Data may not compute
Modern scholars are wrestling with a problem that ancient monks and early authors managed to master: how to keep their work accessible to future generations. While the books, papers, and journals of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fueling the entrepreneurial spirit
“We’re not businesspeople, but we are entrepreneurs.” In a simple sentence, Harvard Professor Gary King both described the gulf that separates university faculty members from the business world and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who needed a stapler?
In April, Eric Mazur, Harvard’s Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, and Gary King, the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, sold the startup company they had founded,...
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Harvard launches Arts and Sciences campaign
Michael D. Smith formally launched the $2.5 billion Harvard Campaign for Arts and Sciences on Saturday morning at a standing-room-only alumni event at Sanders Theatre. The gathering was followed by a...
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Uncertain forecast for Social Security
A new study has found that the financial health of Social Security, the program that millions of Americans have relied on for decades as a crucial part of their income, has been dramatically...
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Big data, massive potential
What if you could predict domestic abuse two years in advance? Or understand the brain’s intricate physical structure, connection by microscopic connection? What if we needed new ways to think about...
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Study that undercut psych research got it wrong
According to two Harvard professors and their collaborators, a widely reported study released last year that said more than half of all psychology studies cannot be replicated is itself wrong. In an...
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Behind China’s viral curtain
The Chinese government fakes 448 million social media posts a year in a strategy that seeks to create the appearance of “viral” outbursts of Web activity, according to a new study by Harvard data...
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