Curated playlist
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Edward ThorndikeEdward Thorndike timed hungry cats escaping from puzzle boxes. It led to his law of effect.
- Mark GranovetterSociologist Mark Granovetter argued that casual acquaintances carry more new information than close friends do.
- William W. FitzhughWilliam W. Fitzhugh founded the Arctic Studies Center in 1988. It focuses only on northern cultures.
- B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner proposed steering missiles with pigeons. The birds pecked at a screen showing the target.
- Rayner UnwinAt ten, Rayner Unwin read The Hobbit for one shilling and helped get it published.
- Elliot ForbesElliot Forbes, known to those around him as "El", was an American conductor and musicologist who lived from the 20th of August 1917 to the 9th of January 2006. Late in life, he made a habit of turning up at undergraduate performances.…
- John MoneyJohn Money was a New Zealand American psychologist and sexologist whose name is attached to a phrase he never coined. Many writers credit him with the term gender identity. He did not invent it. What he did invent, and what he advised for…
- Edward Jay EpsteinAs a graduate student, Edward Jay Epstein published a 1966 book criticizing the Warren Commission.
- Graham E. FullerA 1985 CIA study by Graham E. Fuller was later cited in the Iran-Contra affair.
- Richard FoltzRichard Foltz argues Iranian peoples, mainly Sogdians, drove Silk Road trade.
- Bob Allen (economic historian)Around 1790, British factories boomed, but workers' real wages barely moved for roughly fifty years.