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...Harvard’s animal history group, notes, the multidisciplinary nature of animal studies fosters dialogue. At a recent meeting of the group, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Darwin scholar Janet Browne engaged with MIT cultural historian Harriet Ritvo on the history of sheep domestication in England...
...Beer, the chair of the Harvard government department from 1954 to 1958, served as the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government for years before moving to Boston College in 1982 to be a professor of American politics.Receiving his B.A. from the University of Michigan, Beer went to England on a Rhodes Scholarship before receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard in 1943. He was later granted an honorary doctorate from the University in 1997 in recognition of “his scholarship and [the] enormous impact his teaching had on undergraduates for over three decades...
...Back in Britain, Michael Evans, an atheist and former journalist who downloaded the de-baptism certificate in March, believes the Church of England claims more members than it actually has in order to shore up its influence in the secular world. "It claims to speak for the majority of people in Britain," he says. Official estimates are that fewer than one million Britons regularly attend Sunday services, but there are currently 26 Church of England bishops sitting in the House of Lords. "With churches, everybody checks in, but nobody checks out," says Evans, who was baptized as an infant. "There...
While Harvard might not face other colleges’ top sailors at Central Series events, the Crimson still considers the competitions great opportunities to race local New England squads...
...burns calories instead of storing them. The discovery was made simultaneously by three independent research teams in Boston, the Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden. Brown fat and its potentially crucial role in warding off obesity has since been the subject of three articles in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Unlike its counterpart white fat, a mere two ounces of brown fat tissue, if fully activated, could burn an estimated of 20 percent of daily calories, according to C. Ronald Kahn, one of the lead investigators and a professor at HMS. “It doesn?...