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Why We Can’t Stop Longing for the Good Old Days Neurology and nostalgia help explain why people have always worried that the world is going downhill. Ron Howard (left) and Henry Winkler in a 1974 episode of ‘Happy Days,’ a TV show set in the 1950s. Photo: Walt Disney Television/Getty Images By Johan Norberg Dec. 26, 2020 12:01 am ET If you visit Hagley Park in the West Midlands of England and make it to the big 18th-century house of the Lyttelton family, walk another half-mile to the east and you’ll come upon an exo...

How HIV Research Laid the Foundation for Covid Vaccines Scientific techniques developed in the ongoing fight against AIDS helped scientists combat the new coronavirus As states and hospitals in the U.S. race to roll out the first Covid-19 vaccines, WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez hears from a hospital administrator and immunization expert about the logistical challenges involved in this first phase of the vaccination process. Photo: Victoria Jones/Zuma Press By Dec. 24, 2020 9:51 am ET People are receiving Covid-19 vaccines less than a year after public health authorit...

Though WHRB had to initiate its newest members over Zoom, each student picked a traditional five-character radio name. Tune into WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station, just after midnight on a Sunday and you’ll hear the thumping bass of hip-hop, the staccato pulses of rap, and the soulful cadences of R&B. These beats, part of WHRB’s black music department, The Darker Side, comprise just a few hours of the station’s 24/7 lineup, which undergraduate DJs have typically broadcast live from its cozy studio in the basement of Pennypacker Hall. But since COVID-19 closed campus, those DJs...

In 2008, when the U.S. economy crashed and people were losing their homes and jobs right and left, local artist Doug Nicholson picked up a paint brush. In one session he painted darkness and despair and hopelessness, his brush illustrating the collective feelings of the nation. Nancy Kennedy Grace Notes “I painted it the week that everything collapsed, and this became a dark painting for me as opposed to the abstract paintings I normally do,” he said. However, as a Christian, Doug believes in hope and light, hope as an anchor to hold onto during times of turmoil and uncertainty, and...