Erika Christakis, M.P.H, M.Ed., is an early childhood educator and Harvard College administrator. Follow her on Twitter @ErikaChristakis.
Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of medicine and sociology at Harvard University. Nicholas was named to the TIME 100 in 2009. Follow him on Twitter @NAChristakis.
In Cambridge, social networks laid bare an intricate web of eerie, sometimes banal, connections to the bombings
A recent incident suggests administrators might be more concerned about ugly words than the underlying problems they were intending to satirize
There are downsides to pitting the sexes in a constant, one-up, one-down battle for supremacy
In order to better understand what leads students to cheat, colleges and universities need to break the code of silence and apply their own academic methods to the problem
We cannot talk about school violence without recognizing where the violence was conceived and nurtured: at home
While the Supreme Court debates nudity on old episodes of NYPD Blue, research shows we have a much bigger problem with kids and TV
Recruiting more female officers might increase our chances of finding better solutions to our military problems
Later start times would improve school performance, so why can’t we make the switch?
The controversy over Harvard’s freshman pledge lends credence to the idea that being kind and being smart are mutually exclusive. Here’s why they’re not
