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Daniel L. Smail on Deep History, Lateral Learning, and Bike Lanes

By Ellie S. Klibaner-Schiff

Fifteen Questions: David Sinclair on Age Reversal, Exercise, and Immortal Yeast Cells

Fifteen Questions: Anna Wilson on Fanfiction, Medieval Literature, and Interdisciplinarity

Fifteen Questions: Reginald Dwayne Betts on Vulnerability, Collective Memory, and Freedom Reads

Are We Doing Friendship Wrong?

For Sara Jane Ho, Etiquette is Everywhere

Fifteen Questions: Theda Skocpol on The Election, The Ivory Tower, and The New England Patriots

The sociologist sat down with FM to discuss U.S. authoritarianism, campus protest, and her favorite football team.

For Alejandra Caraballo, the Next 4 Years Are About Survival

Caraballo anticipates dark days ahead for the trans community. “We are going to lose a lot of people,” she says. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it, these next four years are going to be about survival.”

Meet Nina Howe-Goldstein, the Real Hater of Cambridge, Mass.

When Howe-Goldstein transferred to Harvard, she expected to find a rigid academic environment. Then she heard about the $30,000 HUFPI scandal. “I thought to myself, ‘Wait, this place is a complete freak show, but I’m gonna have so much fun here,’” she says.

Strava Comes Full Circle

The popular fitness app Strava emerged through a friendship between former lightweight rowers Mark S. Gainey '90 and Michael T. Horvath '88.