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Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief for The Atlantic, and staff writer Adam Serwer spoke with Harvard's Danielle Allen about the prospects for reconciling our differences and restoring faith in democracy.

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New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discloses to Harvard the project's true origin 

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New discovery paves the way for more stable quantum computing, and explores the wild world of exotic physics

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SPIRIT sessions

How McLean Hospital psychologists blend religion and spirituality with counseling in patient therapy

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Study in mice shows nerves in the gut not only sense the presence of Salmonella but actively deploy defenses

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To Serve Better: Harvard across the country

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Serving Washington D.C.

Clint Smith, whose dissertation focuses on juveniles facing life sentences, leads a prison reading program in Washington, D.C.

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Serving South Dakota

Marnie Gelbart works to increase public understanding of genetics, and the ethical, legal, and social implications

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Serving Tennessee

Sarah Lockridge-Steckel founded The Collective, which works to help young people in Memphis, Tennessee

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The Bare Essentials: Winter Trees

Saturday, December 7, 2019, 8:00pm - 10:30pm

Kuumba's 49th Annual Christmas Concert

Sunday, December 8, 2019, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Boston Humanists: When Facts Are Not Enough: Reading Atheist Fiction

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