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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.
Cooperation really does cascade three degrees through a network. It also fades within two rounds — and a feed full of good news can talk you out of acting.
Read →Fifty-nine years after Kitty Genovese, psychologists still argue about what "diffusion of responsibility" really predicts. The uncomfortable finding: more witnesses can mean less help — until specific conditions flip the pattern.
Read →Research across neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics consistently finds that giving — time, money, or attention — produces measurable improvements in the giver's wellbeing. Here is what the science actually says.
Read →We have spent fifteen years building an infrastructure for simulated connection. The evidence on what this costs us — and what returns when we put the screen down — is now substantial.
Read →Empathy is often treated as a fixed personality trait — you either have it or you don't. Neuroscience suggests otherwise: empathic capacity can be trained, and some methods are considerably more effective than others.
Read →The mental health benefits of volunteering are well-documented — but they don't apply equally to all types of helping or all types of people. Here is what actually works, for whom, and why.
Read →The research on kindness is deeper and stranger than motivational posters suggest. It involves oxytocin, immune function, social contagion, and a neurological feedback loop that rewards giving more than receiving.
Read →Archetypes and the Shadow through the eyes of modern science.
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