Tag: Harvard

The Social Class Identity of Working-Class Students at Harvard College

These, and low-income students are an important subject of research in the sociology of higher education due to the particular struggles and needs that these groups face. Diversification of elite campuses have called into question the experiences that these types of students have, many of ...

What is space dust and how can it help us?

Imagine time-traveling 50 years into the past and telling the world that it would eventually be saved by clouds of lunar dust shot from cannons. Well, it turns out that this idea isn’t a plot-point of science fiction anymore — it’s real. In recent months, researchers have proposed ...

Leading change: reflections from a Harvard course (part 3)

Concentrate power. Once you’ve acquired power, don’t hold it for a small circle of ‘elites’, your leadership team. The main reason is that change takes time and patience; it’s not a one-shot that solves it all. For instance, a new party wins elections for the first...

Harvard, Progressives, and Palestine

Two days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, massacred hundreds of teenagers at a music festival, slaughtered families, kidnapped and raped young women, burned elderly people alive, and allegedly decapitated babies, I received an email from the Harvard Buddhist Community — a student group a...

Why I???m Rescinding My $100 Million Pledge to Harvard

Having been blessed with more happiness and wealth than any one person needs, I am keen to share the bounty. My days are thus filled with answering the question “Who most needs help?”. It was no doubt vanity that led me to think that my pledge to Harvard wo...

A Harvard Brain Researcher Warns You Against These Top 5 Deadly Brain-Destroying Habits

Healthy brain habits boost your cognition and memory but they won’t help if you don’t give up bad habits that damage your brain health. The effects of bad habits will always outweigh the effects of good habits. Giving up bad habits is the first step to improving your brain health. ...