Tag: Harvard

Healthy brain habits boost your cognition and memory but they won’t help if you don’t give up bad habits that damage your brain health. The effects of bad habits will always outweigh the effects of good habits. Giving up bad habits is the first step to improving your brain health. ...

Having been blessed with more happiness and wealth than any one person needs, I am keen to share the bounty. My days are thus filled with answering the question “Who most needs help?”. It was no doubt vanity that led me to think that my pledge to Harvard wo...

It’s one of the fiercest-fought arguments in personal finance. Is it better to rent or buy your home? Here’s why I suspect we’ll never have a final, universally true answer: Housing costs vary from one year to the next (or even from one quarter to the next). Housing c...

Two days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, massacred hundreds of teenagers at a music festival, slaughtered families, kidnapped and raped young women, burned elderly people alive, and allegedly decapitated babies, I received an email from the Harvard Buddhist Community — a student group a...

Concentrate power. Once you’ve acquired power, don’t hold it for a small circle of ‘elites’, your leadership team. The main reason is that change takes time and patience; it’s not a one-shot that solves it all. For instance, a new party wins elections for the first...

Perhaps the biggest question in all of the cosmos is that of life beyond Earth. With so many stars and planets, and with the raw ingredients for life found strewn all about the Universe, there are enormous numbers of proverbial lottery tickets out there: chances for life to arise, survive, persist, ...

Imagine time-traveling 50 years into the past and telling the world that it would eventually be saved by clouds of lunar dust shot from cannons. Well, it turns out that this idea isn’t a plot-point of science fiction anymore — it’s real. In recent months, researchers have proposed ...

These, and low-income students are an important subject of research in the sociology of higher education due to the particular struggles and needs that these groups face. Diversification of elite campuses have called into question the experiences that these types of students have, many of ...

Given a year to study at Harvard on an Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellowship, and to try to learn all I can about bilingualism, I decide to find out what language classes are like on campus. I’ve heard that college language classes are better than they used to be back when I struggled with...