Wisps of cigarette smoke froze in midair at the Advocate building early this morning, when the Crimson announced that Ratatat and Sara Bareilles would headline this year’s Yardfest. Just months ago the Undergraduate Council and campus “Fun Czar” obliterated whatever hip currency th...

Stevan Harnad has questioned some of the claims in my last post. I hate to say this, as a part-time semanticist, but Harnad's criticisms of the above post are mostly semantics. He did more accurately quote the letter of the NIH and Harvard policies (and I apologize for my sloppy wording), but I beli...

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29. At Harvard Stadium on November 23, 1968, the Yale and Harvard football teams met in their annual The Game, with both teams going into the game undefeated for the first time since 1909. Heavily-favored Yale was ranked #16 and was on a 16-game winning streak. Yale was leading...

With all the bad new lately for my alma mater Yeshiva University, it was nice to see the positive news that the school is ranked by US News the 9th most popular in the nation, ahead of (other) highly esteemed institutions like Brown and Columbia. The bigger story in this list is that the Mormon scho...

Who doesn’t love academic research about porn? A recent study by Benjamin G. Edelman, Harvard prof and former student, found that if you live in a “red state,” you’re more likely to subscribe to a porn site than if you live in a “blue state.” And by “red sta...

As I read Bernard Condon and Nathan Vardi’s fascinating recent article in Forbes, it would seem that Harvard and Lehman had rather similar investment philosophies - and ended up with similar results. Harvard, in its search for ever higher returns and a conviction that the good times would roll for...

“This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,� by Drew Gilpin Faust, has won the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize....

urban planning, Kendall Square, Cambridge Wade Roush wrote: Companies, merchants, and residents in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge banded together last week to form the Kendall Square Association, a non-profit group whose mission, according to its new president Tim Rowe, is to “im...

   A Harvard Business student studying the business of online porn crunched the numbers on two years of data from online porn subscribers, which was culled from a company owning over 100 adult websites.  Which state had the most porn subcribers per 1000 broadband users? Utah, with 5.4...

Across the pond, a swirl of controversy has arisen from student preparations for an Empire-themed ball, which is set to be held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on June 14, 2009. (As an aside, John Harvard is an alumnus of Emmanuel College). The Emma May Ball is one of several ‘May balls’...