Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis)

The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network. And the microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @Nature. 1/...

The University of Chicago, as usual, striking the right balance. Worth reading in full. It is exactly right. President Alivisatos’ Note on the Encampment (April 29, 2024) Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an encampment on the Main Quad...

Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university, George Packer writes in @TheAtlantic: “A university is a community, but it is a community of a special kind -- a community devoted to inquiry. It exists so that its memb...