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Located near the Science Center and often mistaken for a modern art museum, this angular building is home to the Department of History of Science and Philosophy. Its brutalist exterior hides some of Harvard’s deepest thinking.
What is the William James Hall?
This “-ology” claims to interpret celestial influence on human behavior.
What is Astrology?
Invented independently by Newton and Leibniz, this field of math deals with limits, derivatives, and integrals.
Unrelated Fun fact: Harvard is older than this (it's also older than the Theory of Gravity)
What is calculus?
This Apple TV+ series returned for its second season in January 2025 after a nearly three-year hiatus as Mark's innie returned to Macrodata Refinement.
What is Severance?
Ted Kaczynski was dubbed the this after carried out a nationwide bombing campaign before being identified by his manifesto. He also went to Harvard...
Who is the Unabomber?
Before becoming president of Harvard in 2007, this historian specialized in Civil War-era America and made history herself as the first woman to lead the university.
Who is Drew Gilpin Faust?
This is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time.
What is Etymology?
This type of number can’t be written as a fraction and has a non-repeating, non-terminating decimal expansion — like √2 or π.
What is an irrational number?
This Netflix series about teenagers in the supernatural '80s is set to release its fifth and final season in 2025.
What is Stranger Things?
This law student and self-styled charmer escaped police custody twice, committed murders across multiple states, and served as his own attorney at trial — before being executed in 1989.
Who is Ted Bundy?
The Harvard Board of Overseers originally designed this during meetings in December 1643 and January 1644. However, the design was forgotten until rediscovered by University President Josiah Quincy and revealed in the bicentennial celebrations of 1836.
What is the Harvard Shield (coat of arms)?
Not just a store — It’s the study of human societies, cultures, and their development.
What is Anthropology?
The P vs NP problem — one of the Millennium Prize Problems — originates in this area of theoretical math.
What is computer science?
Asterix'd as "The New Avengers," this title team has brought in $325M so far this year.
Who are the Thunderbolts?
This Colombian drug lord controlled the Medellín Cartel and made Forbes’ billionaire list — until he was killed in 1993.
Who is Pablo Escobar?
2023 marked the year with the lowest acceptance rate since Harvard's inception with this % of students being accepted.
Closest % will get the points.
What is 3.19%?
This -ology is the study of fossils and prehistoric life.
What is paleontology?
A football team scores:
1 touchdown with a missed extra point
2 field goals
1 safety
And another touchdown with a successful 2-point conversion
so they have this many points.
What is 21?
In May 2025, this pop icon performed for over 2.5 million fans on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, making it the highest-attended concert by a female artist in history.
Who is Lady Gaga?
He confessed to the 1969 Tate murders and led a cult that believed in an apocalyptic race war he called “Helter Skelter.”
Who is Charles Manson?
In the decade preceding the American Revolution, economic difficulties made the acquisition of fresh food difficult at Harvard. This took place at Harvard University in 1766 and was the first recorded Harvard student protest in what is now the United States.
What is the The Great Butter Rebellion?
This is the study of diseases and their effects.
What is pathology?
This paradox in probability theory involves switching doors to win a car — and confuses people to this day.
What is the Monty Hall problem?
This annual event took place on earlier this month celebrating the history of Black dandyism.
What is the Met Gala?
Convicted in 1992, this Milwaukee killer targeted young men and boys — and horrified the nation when police discovered human remains, including body parts stored in his refrigerator. *nom nom*
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?