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Art, printmaking, and science
Printmaking was a new technology in the 16th century, and artists who created prints for scientific texts not only illustrated the books, they enabled scientific advances by helping early scientists...
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Nearer, better
Absence makes your heart grow fonder, but close quarters may boost your career. According to new research by scientists at Harvard Medical School, the physical proximity of researchers, especially...
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Putting things in their place
In Harvard’s Collection of Historical and Scientific Instruments, curious items are the norm, like the exploding “thunder house,” a small wooden box used to demonstrate the value of lightning rods, or...
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Evolution of ‘final solution’
The table slab was cold and hard beneath 6-year-old Irene Hizme as doctors and nurses took measurements and blood samples. She didn’t know what was happening to her, and by the time it was all over,...
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The artistic side of science
Harvard Medical School (HMS) has acknowledged the fine arts in a big way. Its Countway Library of Medicine, an alliance with the Boston Medical Library, houses 100,000 photographs and prints, as well...
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Doggone that stress
Students have returned, school is back in session, and Harvard has officially reawakened. But accompanying that shift are the latent worries and stresses of thousands of faculty and staff members who...
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The narrative of cancer
A society’s narrative of cancer often evolves based on the technologies of its time — a truism the medical historian Siddhartha Mukherjee detailed to Pulitzer Prize–winning effect in his book, “The...
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Saga of a Civil War surgeon
There are 2,000 plaques and other memorials on what was once the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa. Only one is dedicated to a physician, Zabdiel Boylston Adams, an 1853 graduate of Harvard...
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‘Resetting the Table’ explores food across the country
Corn and chocolate, hot dogs and beer: We think of these foods as quintessentially American. But a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology shows that they actually reflect the...
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