How the humanities can enrich scientific discourse, challenge the limitations of scientism and foster a holistic approach to understanding the natural world and our place in it. That COVID-19 took a ...

Remember the story about the elephant seen from different perspectives? Here’s a twist. A biologist with a telescope peered at the animal and said, I see a hairy grayness horizon to horizon. A toenail ...

Charlotte R. Rediker ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Lowell House. Everybody knows about Mark Zuckerberg's journey from Harvard dorm room to Silicon Valley titan.

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum firmly believes that science and the humanities can work in concert to help people better understand the world. His own research on birds as aesthetic agents inspired ...

IN mediæval days, when ecclesiasticism ruled, there were venturesome spirits who held that there might be truth without dogma. They sought to discover from the literature and life of Greece and Rome ...

The two-fold aim of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University is (i) to study and promote human flourishing, and (ii) to develop and implement systematic approaches to the synthesis of ...

When one thinks of the pre-med track, the first majors that come to mind are likely biology, chemistry or any other branch of science. Yet nearly 1,738 of the students who applied to medical school in ...