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How to Be an Egghead: Harvard Conference on Public Intellectuals Host Lawrence Friedman Shares Four Key Characteristics

The fifth annual Conference on Public Intellectuals will be held at Harvard this month. Though the host, Lawrence Friedman, couldn’t tell us exactly what a public intellectual is, he did share a few qualities a person would need to be considered.

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That Harvard Book Bound In Human Flesh Isn’t Actually Bound In Human Flesh

Science: 1, Internet: 0. For one reason or another—perhaps it was the flashy headline, or the gruesome mysterious details—a nearly decade-old story published by the […]

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‘Troll Wrastling for Beginners’: Learn How to Deal With Online Negativity

For the most part, the online mantra for dealing with seedy, nasty vitriol spewed by Internet users hiding behind anonymous Twitter handles and log-in titles […]

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Harvard Business School’s More Moderate Online Learning Foray

Last week, Harvard Business School launched a new online education platform, HBX, where it made some major tweaks to the online education model championed by […]

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Get Paid By Harvard to Post on Wikipedia

If you enjoy scouring Wikipedia all day, making sure that posts are accurate and information entered into the database isn’t fudging important historical facts and […]

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Throwback Thursday: The SAT’s In-State Origins

In the 1930s, Harvard President James Bryant Conant went looking for way to predict the college performance of Harvard applicants. He settled on a newly […]

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Mayor Bloomberg Will Be Harvard Commencement Speaker

Now that he doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of New York City, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg will return to his home state of […]

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LL Cool J Is Harvard’s Artist of the Year

Harvard is showing respect to yet another pioneer of the hip-hop industry. Last year, the school announced that it was setting up a fellowship under […]

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Harvard Student Killed in Car Accident in New Jersey

A Harvard University student was killed, and several others injured, after a van they were traveling in that was returning from a competition in Virginia […]

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Happy Tenth Birthday, Facebook

On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com from his dorm room in Cambridge. That makes this the website’s 10th birthday. For the company and […]

Arts & Entertainment

Matt Damon Skypes Harvard for Q&A On The Monuments Men

As if we could ever get enough of Matt Damon and his ever-changing hairstyles. Damon called in via Skype on Monday night to a forum held […]

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Eight Colleges Are Competing For the ‘Super Smash Bros.’ Championship

In the fight between eight college teams all vying to become the Super Smash Bros. Melee champion, there can only be one school that reigns […]

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Harvard Gets Its Chinese Jade Artifact Back

A rare Chinese artifact that was stolen more than 30 years ago from the Harvard University Art Museums is now back in the hands of […]

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Intelligence Expert: Obama’s NSA Reform Promises Are the First Step

In an effort to restore the confidence of the American public and to calm fears that metadata collected by some of the administration’s top intelligence […]

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A Craigslist Poster Offered ‘$40K a Year to Attend Harvard University as Me’

  For those of you wishing you could just go back to college, there’s this: Among the ‘writing gigs’ being advertised in the Pittsburgh section […]