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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.
List (2007): 71 percent of students gave to a stranger. Add the option to take, and 10 percent give. Nobody changed; the menu did. What that means for measuring kindness.
Read →Happy people make less small talk, said a famous 2010 recorder study. Its own authors rechecked with 486 people: deep talk mattered, small talk did not.
Read →Loneliness as deadly as 15 cigarettes a day? The number was read off a 2010 bar chart, where the main result is shorter than the smoking bar.
Read →Rat Park, the famous proof that addiction is loneliness, never replicated. A 2018 study found something sturdier: rats choose company over heroin.
Read →Eight words of thanks doubled how many people helped again, from 32 to 66 percent. Those two experiments were run by Francesca Gino. What still stands in the famous gratitude study.
Read →A Florida coffee chain reached 378 cars. Experiments show strangers pass on fairness faithfully and greed readily, while generosity arrives as mere fairness.
Read →Bundle your kind acts into one day, the advice goes. It traces to one unpublished student study. A 2018 meta-analysis of 4,045 people says what holds up.
Read →The famous chart shows a 60-point consent gap. The same paper measured actual donations: 14.1 against 16.4 per million. Only one number travelled.
Read →Fundraising's most quoted rule says one named child beats a statistic. A preregistered replication with 1004 participants found no effect at all.
Read →Cameras caught 219 real street conflicts in three cities. Someone stepped in 91 percent of the time, and more bystanders made help likelier, not rarer.
Read →One hundred and fifty relationships, supposedly set by the size of the neocortex. A 2021 reanalysis of the same primate data got 16, 42, 69 and 109.
Read →Hurried seminary students walked past a slumped man — 10 percent helped against 63 with time. The sermon topic made “no difference”: 53 percent against 29.
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