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Is social media responsible for what happens to users? — Harvard Gazette
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (1664+ words) Parents of children who have died due to alleged social media-related harms hold a vigil on Feb. 5 at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse, ahead of the landmark social media addiction trial. A Los Angeles jury will decide whether Meta's Instagram…...
‘The sound stopped suddenly’ — Harvard Gazette
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (715+ words) The first symptoms appeared during a concert. In 2009, Satoshi Yamaguchi, a drummer with the Japanese rock quartet RADWIMPS, found himself lost during a familiar bridge. "The sound stopped suddenly," Yamaguchi recalled in a 2023 TV news interview with NHK World-Japan. "I…...
New factor in predicting who becomes criminal: when you were born. — Harvard Gazette
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1411+ words) Who is most likely to become a criminal? Social scientists have traditionally weighed assorted factors related to family, neighborhood, and personal character. "But there's a whole other layer to consider," said sociologist Robert J. Sampson,Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor....
Supermarket savvy — Harvard Gazette
2+ week, 3+ day ago (333+ words) Video by Maureen Coyle/Harvard Staff The GSD course "Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf Life in the Supermarket Landscape," taught by twin brothers Teman and Teran Evans, turns students into strategists who evaluate household brands and then redesign them from…...
How design of public housing can lift future prospects of children — Harvard Gazette
4+ week, 1+ day ago (936+ words) Cabrini-Green, a 70-acre low-income housing project in Chicago in 1966. The last of the buildings was torn down in 2011 and replaced with mixed-income townhouses and mid-rise apartment buildings. Public housing high-rises, common in the late 20th century, often siloed residents from surrounding…...
After the disaster, living for today — Harvard Gazette
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (681+ words) When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors of healthy aging." But seven months later, his plans changed when a magnitude 9.1 earthquake, the fourth most powerful since 1900, struck 50 miles…...
A tiny limpet reveals big secrets — Harvard Gazette
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (886+ words) Discovery marks significant find in study of deep sea In the depths of the central Pacific Ocean, nearly 2,400 meters below the surface, scientists found a new species of deep-sea limpet clinging to a sunken log. The discovery represents a significant…...
A call for corporate America to step up on homeless crisis — Harvard Gazette
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (820+ words) Homeless encampment in August near Washington Circle in D.C. Many give much of themselves to help the homeless. Take Mike Jellison. He knows about drug addiction, familial estrangement, prison, and recovery and brings it all to bear on his work as…...
Lauren Williams awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’ — Harvard Gazette
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (968+ words) Lauren Williams "00 is a theoretical mathematician and recently she felt stuck in her research, a recurring frustration for a scholar who wrestles with difficult conceptual problems. Then, as Williams worked quietly in her home office, she was jolted by an…...
When your research donor is 6 — Harvard Gazette
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (791+ words) In a classroom in the Sherman Fairchild Laboratory Building, 6-year-old Marianne Cullen was starting to get the jitters. She was about to meet her favorite scientist, regenerative biologist and axolotl researcher Jessica Whited. "You might have to hold me up,…...