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28 Sep 2026
Five post offices in Assam, India, have screened nearly 9,000 people and handed out free reading glasses, most of them to first-time wearers. Why the post office works as a clinic, what a trial in Assam's tea gardens found, and what the pilot has not shown yet.
25 Sep 2026
On 23 September 2026 the HALO Trust closed its Kosovo programme after 27 years. Of 585 mine and bomb casualties since 1999, 438 came in the first two years. The clearance that mattered opened an airport, a motorway and mountain trails, and about 6.67 km² of cluster contamination is still Kosovo's to clear.
23 Sep 2026
2,117 corrals in northern Tanzania are fences grown into living trees, and a controlled comparison credits them with stopping 99.9 percent of night attacks. In Kenya, the best predictor of whether a fortified boma got repaired turned out to be the distance to the next one.
23 Sep 2026
More than 450 family health houses put a midwife within walking distance for 82 percent of the women around them. The 1994 paper everyone quotes by its title says distance was only one delay of three.
21 Sep 2026
A yacht club in Galicia has taught adapted sailing free of charge since 2012, at about €150,000 a year. The hardware problem was solved long ago; the sport has still been refused the Paralympics three times.
20 Sep 2026
A decree banned shark fishing across Colombia in 2021 and changed almost nothing on the Wayuu coast. A project that hands fishers a notebook changed seventeen boats out of twenty.
How deep can your mind go? From cinematic mysticism to real neuroplasticity.
Children in Nairobi kept dropping out of library programmes because they had to go home for lunch, so Book Bunk started feeding them: more than 140,000 meals so far. How two restored libraries became civic hubs, and what still has not been measured.
Read →Individual rationality, collective disaster. The prisoner's dilemma is the mathematical structure behind nuclear arms races, overfishing, antibiotic resistance, and climate change.
Read →Distributive, procedural, restorative — justice has many faces. Here is how the major philosophical traditions think about it.
Read →These are not random errors. Cognitive biases are predictable, systematic patterns that affect everyone — including experts and people who know about biases.
Read →Pull the lever or push the man? The arithmetic is identical; most people answer differently. Why — and what does it mean for AI ethics?
Read →In a single interaction, cheating pays. Over repeated interactions with the same players, it doesn't. Axelrod's computer tournaments in the 1980s proved cooperation can evolve from pure self-interest.
Read →We know what neurons do. We don't know why any of it feels like anything. David Chalmers called this the Hard Problem of Consciousness in 1995.
Read →How deep can your mind go? From cinematic mysticism to real neuroplasticity.
Read →What if our reality is a neural simulation?
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