Word People: Teaching Humanities to Harvard Scientists

What I Learned Working Across the Disciplines

I carry a picture with me everywhere I go—not because I like it but because I need it. In the picture, I look happy, and in fact I was happy. I was also hot. It was in the mid-nineties on that early September day in 2000, and my forehead was shining. One side of my hair was shorter than the other because I had given myself a back-to-school haircut to sa…