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Writer, editor, journalist, runner, reader, mom. First-gen college grad. Current: @Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Former: @BostonGlobe and @StarTribune.
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High-tech for the 1700s

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By Christy DeSmith Verified
| Harvard Gazette
An air pump from 1770. 3 min read Electrical conductors. Surveying tools. Mathematical instruments. Harvard College, founded in 1636, was a pioneer in teaching the applied sciences. Over the centuries, the institution amassed thousands of tools used for lessons in physics, trigonometry, and more. Some of these items even helped propel the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War.
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Two Americas, then and now

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By Christy DeSmith Verified
| Harvard Gazette
5 min read The Declaration of Independence, with its assertion of human equality, is akin to America’s “vision statement,” said historian Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History. He sees the Constitution, threaded with compromises on individual rights, as more like the country’s “operating manual.” “The disjunction between the vision statement and the operating manual is part of the dilemma of the United States and its history,” he said.
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Economists weigh consequences of war, tariffs, AI

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By Christy DeSmith Verified
| Harvard Gazette
The “jobless recovery” from the 2008 global financial crisis was the most severe in U.S. and Western European history, according to researchers, as firms automated functions rather than rehire. Today, threats to the labor market due to artificial intelligence are “of a much bigger magnitude,” said Gita Gopinath, the Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics.
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