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‘Why is nutrition so confusing?’ is a common lament, but the truth is out there. Forget fad diets and media hype. It’s time to harness the power of science to create a healthy and sustainable diet.
Le sociofinancement médical recueille des milliards de dollars chaque année - surtout pour ceux qui ont déjà de bons emplois et sont propriétaires de leur propre maison.
Medical crowdfunding raises billions of dollars annually – mostly for those who already have good jobs and own their own homes.
Scudder’s approach was grounded in trust and mutual respect. There would be no guards, no weapons, no walls and no uniforms.
Approval ratings are usually a good way to predict the winner of the next presidential election. But Trump’s numbers fall far outside any historical trends.
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains. Enter the human universal of shamanism.
Software makers including Apple have been creating apps aimed at limiting how much time we spend using our smartphones. A behavioral scientist explains how – and whether – they work.
For many working women, motherhood is a major interruption to their career. Some eventually work their way back up to full-time work, but there are many other paths that women might follow.
The high stress conditions of an outbreak can spread a dysfunctional culture among those working to fight it. A survey after the 2015 Ebola epidemic quantified the issue – and suggests a better way.
From the French Revolution to #MeToo, social movements often burst into the mainstream with what seems like little warning. Cass Sunstein explains why.
La science fait partie de la vie quotidienne. Les informations circulent et disent un fait et son contraire. Les journalistes doivent tenir compte de toutes les ambiguïtés d'un sujet.
The college admission cheating scandal recently announced by the Department of Justice shows why colleges should admit students via lottery, argues an expert on college admissions.
People – individually and in groups – were not as good at facial recognition as an algorithm. But five people plus the algorithm, working together, were even better.
EPA is moving to regulate two chemicals from a group called PFAS that are contaminating drinking water. A public health expert explains why the agency should take much broader action.
Science is a part of everyday life. Science journalists can do more to connect science to the public.
An Obama administration veteran offers some insights from his experience about driving massive increases in clean energy.
In 1910, along one 45-block stretch of New York City’s Fifth Avenue, there were only 13 trees.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s decision to double the price of petrol shows very poor judgement and bad leadership.
Colleges and universities are often criticized for how they admit students from diverse groups. A college admissions scholar suggests an admissions lottery could help make the process more fair.
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Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, Harvard Kennedy School
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Executive Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
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Food and Climate Policy Fellow, Harvard University
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Physician-scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Research Director of the People Lab, Harvard Kennedy School
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Research Scientist, Harvard University
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Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Public Health, Harvard University
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Associate, Sustainability Science, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
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Professor of Law, Harvard University
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Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University
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W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, Harvard University | DPhil Student, University of Oxford, Harvard University
