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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.
Combining neuroscience and mindfulness into a single working system.
On 27 August the county governor of Skåne invited 33 everyday heroes to his residence in Malmö. They were nominated by their own municipalities, for work nobody pays them to do.
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 →After the 26 August flood in Nepal, rescue crews from six countries kept clearing a blocked hydropower tunnel long after the numbers said to stop. On day nine, something answered back.
Read →On a Tuesday evening in Gislaved, four boys aged ten to thirteen rode past an elderly woman with a walker. They stopped. Police: no missing-person search had to be launched.
Read →Five words on a doorstep lifted giving from 28.6 to 50 percent, and swapping the penny for a dollar made the effect disappear. The money never followed.
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.
Read →One good deed was meant to license the next bad one. A meta-analysis of 91 studies put it at d = 0.31. A 2024 replication with 932 people got the reverse.
Read →Fifty-four pairs of students wrote to a classmate they had lost touch with. Senders predicted 5.57, recipients said 6.17. What the gap is, and what it is not.
Read →Of 337 bystanders who only de-escalated real street conflicts on CCTV, 12 were hit. No weapons, no head-butts. What that number does and does not mean.
Read →A match raised giving 19 percent. Going from $1:$1 to $3:$1 changed nothing — 50,083 letters, and the price theory came apart in the post.
Read →A paragraph explaining why people give more to one named child made them give less to her — and no more to the statistics. $2.83 against $1.26, real money.
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