Editor's Note

Dear FM, Lately, I have been getting the Scaries. Sunday scaries, Turkey Shoot scaries, election scaries. This issue, too, is scary — scary late, yes, but also scary good. Are you afraid of the New Right? Are you afraid of conservatives? Should you be? In their scrut, RAD and SS investigate the world of conservatives at Harvard. Though operating often quietly and behind the scenes, couched in Western philosophical theories that appear to be removed from politics, these people and their organizations in fact espouse the very ideas that underlie the modern New Right movement. Through thorough, dogged reporting and research, RAD and SS reveal the implications of this and the effect these intellectual conservatives have on shaping politics. Following this scrut, we have a couple of scary features! MEL and CDT write about the Sea Monsters exhibit in the Museum of Natural History, which reveals the truly terrifying monster of the sea: humans and the environmental destruction they bring. MMH and AAK talk to AnhPhu D. Nguyen ’25-’26 and Caine A. Ardayfio ’25-’26 about the AI sunglasses they created that can recognize people’s faces and provide the wearer with information about complete strangers. (Weird! Creepy!) AWA and CS talk to a MCB professor about the third floor of the BioLabs and whether it is a “Nobel incubator” — or just a regular place in the building. NFLL takes us on her Geocaching journey to Cambridge Cemetery, which, while slightly scary, was also a wholesome autumn adventure around the city. On this transition from scary to wholesome, XSC talked to Michael T. Horvath ’88 and Mark S. Gainey ’90, the founders of Strava, on their decades-long friendship and how the popular fitness-social app came to be. Finally, wrapping up this issue, SG reflects on how her relationship with her hometown, New York, has changed since she came to college — how, in some ways, she had to leave in order to remember what she loves about it. Many thanks are in order for people who have made these times less scary. Thank you SET, LPE, JND, OWZ, and XCZ for a beautiful glossy and for last-minute graphics. Thank you LLL, BHP, JJG, and AYL for stunning portraits — the photos in this issue are chef’s kiss. Thank you MJH, EJS, and CY (extra special shoutout to EJS for thorough scrut help) despite the hell that is shoot. Thank you to FM Execs for keeping this big ol’ thing running! Thank you compers for absolutely eating with the pieces you’ve been writing! We are very impressed by their quality. Finally, thank you, thank you, to HD for enduring shoot and all of FM with me and for being my co-chair better half, even with the struggles of concussion recovery. FMLove, HD & KT