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Sanghera would like to see a law against forcing someone to marry. A Liberal-Democrat member of the House of Lords introduced a bill to curb the practice by civil means. It was debated on Jan. 26 but has little chance of becoming law without government support. Sanghera intends to...
For most Harvard students, intersession has already begun: their remaining responsibilities include planning vacations and gloating to unlucky roommates with dreaded Monday and Tuesday exams. But a fortunate few have been laughing for some time now—students who, through a combination of term papers and December exams, have...
Yet such complaints expose an often overlooked double standard: We expect our professors to teach us the skills we need to know, yet we expect our professors to somehow innately know how to teach without ever having been taught how to do so. Just as our abilities to craft theses...
If nothing else, Harvard professors are a smart bunch, and their paths to Harvard’s storied halls have been paved by pronounced senses of can-do. But, to throw an old adage on its head, we seem to have arrived at a place in which those who can...
The first discoveries of neuroplasticity came from studies of how changes in the messages the brain receives through the senses can alter its structure and function. When no transmissions arrive from the eyes in someone who has been blind from a young age, for instance, the visual cortex can learn...