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Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

This course introduces learners to Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) through the lens of TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning). Learners explore best practices to deploy, monitor, and maintain (tiny) Machine Learning models in production at scale.

Learn about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.