Where Senators Sit Can Shape Their Votes, Study Says

Where senators sit can shape their votes, according to a study whose analysts examined more than 30 years of roll-call data and 1 million individual votes.

The research, highlighted by Harvard, points to a link between seating position and voting behaviour in the chamber.

The same roundup of Harvard findings also featured other items, including a piece asking whether cursive is worth learning, which noted that pencil-and-paper asks more of a student than a keyboard, and that maybe that is the point.

Another item, on seizing the AI moment gingerly, carried the quote: "We want to cure diseases but in order to do that we need to use a tool that can create bioweapons."

Harvard's history with the Nobel Prize also featured, with a quiz inviting readers to test their knowledge of the prize, whose history with the university runs deep.

Featured events listed included Pressure Points: Leading Mental Health Innovation at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at 1 p.m. Thursday, The Fascinating World of Fungi at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture at 6 p.m. Thursday, and a Dean's Distinguished Lecture from the Division of Continuing Education at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.