On September 11, during the eve of the Scottish independence referendum, another Western European independence movement was brewing 1,300 miles to the south. Hundreds of thousands of residents of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia gathered in the streets of the capital city of Barcelona to demand a vote for their region’s independence from Spain. As … Read more
On September 21, over 100 Harvard affiliates, including activists and members of Divest Harvard, Harvard Hillel, and other student groups, joined the historic People’s Climate March in Manhattan. Below is a photo essay of the event produced by HPR contributing photographer Mattea Mrkusic. [NEW YORK] Between 310,000 and 400,000 protesters flooded the streets of New … Read more
On September 22, William Deresiewicz, the opinionated and controversial author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite, sat down for a question and answer session in Harvard’s Paine Hall. The atmosphere was respectable enough: on an elevated stage beside the scrawny, bespectacled bohemian sat three deans, one English professor, a recent Harvard graduate, … Read more
This is the sixth installment in the Harvard Political Review‘s interview series with Massachusetts’ candidates for governor. Scott Lively is currently a full-time pastor running as an independent candidate. He has claimed close alignment with biblical principles throughout the campaign, ranging from his faith-based economic policy to his “[deep concern] for those who self-identify as homosexuals.” Harvard … Read more
[SAN FRANCISCO] First came the gold-seeking 49ers, and then came the newly-minted computer science college grads. “We’ve been a city of innovation ever since the Gold Rush,” David Chiu, supervisor of San Francisco’s board of directors, declared at the Share conference in May 2014. Share, hosted in San Francisco, convened for two days to talk … Read more
Two years after Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) first emerged as free, online educational opportunities for the public, they are still a growing trend. Platforms such as Coursera, Udacity, and edX continue to add new courses, and participants continue to enroll in classes that feature university professors and industry experts as instructors. However, these courses’ strikingly … Read more
Fighting men have always sought to maximize the amount of violence they can exert relative to the risk they take on. This instinct inspires the continuous advancement of our weapons’ range, striking precision, power, and speed of action. The next stage in the evolution of weapons technology is now arriving: swarm robotics. Swarm robots will … Read more