Noah B. Pisner
5 Questions With Rachel A. Brown '10
Rachel A. Brown ’10 recently released her first EP, “Building Castles.”
Venn Diagram: The Ivy League and Blue Ivy Carter
A child’s future destiny/The Future of Destiny’s Child
Coordinates: On Country Roads
I can’t explain why I always want to cry every goddamn time I hear John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” It’s just a camp thing.
Read Across America Day: Happy Birthday to You, Dr. Seuss!
Read Across America Day: Happy Birthday to You, Dr. Seuss!
The Side Effects of Investment Banking
Springtime at Harvard means that hundreds of students are strapping on their fancy suits, accentuating the action verbs on their resumes, and exposing themselves to another deadly outbreak of investment banking interviews. Unbeknownst to most of these finance-types, however, are the health risks that result from continual exposure to such workplace activity.
The Best of Harvard on '30 Rock'
Harvard graduates have been infiltrating NBC's primetime writing scene since Al Franken '73 first landed his "Saturday Night Live" writing gig in 1975. Those that followed Franken have included James "Jim" M. Downey '74, Conan C. O'Brien '85, B.J. Novak '01, and an insufferable slew of comedic know-it-all's from the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine.
The Name of The Game
In 1959, the syndicated sports columnist Walter W. “Red” Smith called a Yale athletics official at the time, Charlie Loftus, to say he wouldn’t be able to make that year’s Harvard-Yale football match. Loftus disbelievingly replied, “What? You’re going to miss The Game.”
Henson Calls for Teaching through TV
Lisa M. Henson ’82-’83, the chief executive officer of the Jim Henson Company and eldest daughter of the famous entertainment company’s namesake, spoke at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Tuesday night to advocate for the increased use of multimedia educational tools in preschools.
Niall Ferguson, Hero of the One-Percent?
Earlier this week on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Global Public Square (GPS), Harvard's Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson debated with the director of Columbia's Earth Institute and former Harvard economics professor Jeffery Sachs '76. The point of contention was the cause of inequality in the U.S. and the interests of the Occupy Movement.
Fifteen Questions with Jeffrey D. Sachs '76
Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia, an advisor to the United Nations, and one of the youngest Economics professors in Harvard’s history. He talks to FM about virtue, occupation, and intellectual struggle.
Back for a Third Time: Steven Pinker on 'The Colbert Report'
Harvard Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker appeared on "The Colbert Report" this past Tuesday to showcase his new book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined."
Past Tense: A Tradition of Protest
FM looks into and beyond Vietnam protests to a storied culture of rebellion on campus challenging everything from saturated fats to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
