Episodi

  • The World Will Still Be There
    Oct 18 2026

    Magazine writer Sarit O. Greenwood talks about re-learning to disconnect from social media and the 24-hour news cycle after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel made time offline feel dangerous.


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    7 min
  • Celebrating the Mundane
    Oct 11 2026

    Magazine writer Megan L. Blonigen tells the story of her six visits to Portland’s Umbrella Cover Museum.


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    8 min
  • Episode 8: The (Un)Official Harvard Dictionary: Fifteen Words and Where They Came From
    Jan 14 2023

    As with any other language, each Harvard term or phrase has a complex backstory that reveals something about campus culture. Join Fifteen Minutes Staff Writers Hewson Duffy, Mariah M. Norman, and Kaitlyn Tsai as they break down 15 words that capture the "Harvard experience."

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    46 min
  • Episode 7: 'Termite Justice': Prison Justice Advocacy, Within and Outside Harvard's Gates
    Jan 14 2023

    Whether Harvard has an obligation to educate students about mass incarceration — and how it should do so — is a question that looms large. Join Fifteen Minutes Staff Writers Michal Goldstein and Ciana J. King as they investigate Harvard's prison advocacy programs.

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    30 min
  • Episode 6: Dropping Out and Cashing In: The Rise of DAOHQ
    Dec 11 2022

    Lucas Chu and Emmet Halm, Harvard drop-outs and founders of crypto startup DAOHQ, see themselves as part of a new vanguard of anti-institutional entrepreneurs. But have they really distanced themselves from the institutions they critique? Join Fifteen Minutes Staff Writers Talia M. Blatt and Isabel T. Mehta as they profile Lucas and Emmet.

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    48 min
  • Episode 5: Steven Pinker and the Fight Over Academia’s Future
    Dec 11 2022

    Public intellectual and Harvard professor Steven A. Pinker believes that academia needs to be saved from itself. He is prepared to do his part. Join Fifteen Minutes Staff Writers Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead and Miles J. Herszenhorn as they uncover the mystery of Steven Pinker.

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    46 min
  • Episode 4: The Fires Underneath Pforzheimer House
    Nov 14 2022

    Join Fifteen Minutes Editor Io Y. Gilman and Staff Writer Graham R. Weber as they set out to uncover and understand the system that keeps Harvard running — from heating and cooling to electricity. Through there investigations a deeply complex system emerged — one at once modern and old-fashioned — and one that will have to change as climate change accelerates.

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    32 min
  • Episode 3: Treeland: The High-Rises Harvard Never Built
    Nov 3 2022

    In the 1970s, the University was primed to build an immense graduate student housing complex in the Riverside neighborhood — until grassroots resistance led it to scrap the project altogether. Join Fifteen Minutes Staff Writers Henry N. Lear and Benjy Wall-Feng as they explore the story of the last time Harvard tried to expand into Cambridge.

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    42 min