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Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

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

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

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

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

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

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!

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

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

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

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

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.

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

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

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

Learn what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 

Learn the significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Discover how pathogen genomics informs public health decisions and practice.

Explore how genomic patterns help us understand infectious disease transmission.