Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

Javier Jurado Vélez is looking forward to starting medical school this fall and already has ideas about what the practice of medicine may look like for him. "I've always thought about the idea of ...

We have Hum, not “poetry for physicists”; why, then, do we have “physics for poets”? There’s a flaw in the Core; a tear in the otherwise flawless ozone layer that surrounds the College. I first ...

It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences. This is a serious mistake. The sciences and the humanities are ...

That COVID-19 took a terrible toll not only on children’s academic learning but on their behavioral and psychosocial development is now conventional wisdom. A postmortem in The New York Times issued ...

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 ...

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.

The melody of human progress up to the present has played on two grand instruments: science and the humanities. But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have been treated as separate ...

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 ...

Majors in health professions and STEM fields are up, while the humanities, education, and social sciences are down over the past ten years of college graduates. While there’s been something of a ...