Conversations
15 Minutes with 21 Colorful Crimson
On a campus where most things are triangulated within four dimensions of irony, 21CC’s earnestness combines with genuine musicality to create what serious music critics call a “bop.”
The Not-Nun in Mather House
“I was so adamant. I needed to become a nun. The monastic life was captivating to me.”
Ben Schatz TOC
Benjamin H. Schatz '81 dressed in drag for the Hasty Pudding Parade during his freshman year.
Ben Schatz
Benjamin H. Schatz '81 gives United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim a tour of Harvard in 1981.
21 Colorful Crimson
Bertram C. Watson Jr. '21 and other members of 21 Colorful Crimson performed at Yardfest 2018 in April.
Hey Professor: Toni L. Griffin
FM sat down with Griffin at her new exhibit in Gund Library, “Design for the Just City,” named after her popular class, to discuss justice in urban environments including Cambridge.
Wrangham vs Lieberman
Richard W. Wrangham and Daniel E. Lieberman discuss the role of heat in human deveopment.
Shifting Gears
It didn’t take long for Straus—4’9, 13 years old, and a woman—to realize she didn’t fit into racing’s most common demographic. She says a comment from a well-meaning instructor almost made her quit.
Along the Charles River
Lawrence S. Bacow and Fifteen Minutes Magazine writer Luke W. Xu '20 run along the Charles River on a rainy Marathon Monday.
Moira G. Weigel ’07 on the “Tinder Apocalypse”
“Labor of Love” is a feminist materialist history of dating. I was interested in how dating as a social practice intersects with the economy, with technology, with other aspects—all the forces that shape our social lives. The basic thesis of the book is that courtship practices are deeply entwined with the economy—and dating in particular emerges at the same time as new forms of consumer capitalism around 1900.
It Takes Two: Richard W. Wrangham and Daniel E. Lieberman
Heat is not just the exogenous heat we create when we cook, but the heat we generate with our metabolism. The fire within us is very important.
