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Toby Ord: Giving What He Can and Encouraging You to Do the Same
August 17, 2016 | Generosity is the right instinct, but not all giving is equally effective. Meet one man who's dedicated his life—including a significant portion of his modest income
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The Plastic Pollution Coalition: Spreading the Word to Reduce the Waste
February 20, 2016 | As valuable as they can be, recycling and clean-ups aren't the answer. Source reduction is the key to sparing the environment—including ourselves—from more plastic poisoning. Enter the Plastic Pollution Coalition to get that message into our thick heads
Heads or Tails
Obamacare, is it on Life Support?
January 20, 2016 | A reasonable prediction seems to be the ACA is here to stay and that efforts to repeal it will, vis-a-vi the British system, become less fervent as people get used to the benefits it offers to them
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Women on 20s: Promoting the Value of Gender Equality
December 10, 2015 | The U.S. talks a good game of gender equality, but a new nonprofit org says the country needs to put its money where its mouth is.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Contributing to a More Informed Society
October 07, 2015 | Just about the only time the CPB is in the news is when pols make noise about choking off federal funding for public media. But if more people knew the whole story, the conversation might be different.
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Retraction Watch: Providing Information About Bad Information
July 20, 2015 | In a field supposedly peer-reviewed and self-correcting, there is a decided lack of transparency and dissemination when it comes to retractions. Enter Retraction Watch, which aims to change the paradigm.
Insider
Alkaline Water: Healthy Elixir?
June 02, 2015 | Do alkaline water's health claims hold water or do the benefits simply favor the maker over the drinker?
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Mr. Money Mustache: Preaching a Different Means to Make Ends Meet
May 12, 2015 | The price of overspending can be counted not merely in the cost of each excessive or needless purchase, but also in how such a lifestyle cuts into your financial freedom. But a young retiree is looking to guide others in a different direction.
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Bruce K. Alexander: Changing the Conventional Wisdom about Addiction
April 06, 2015 | What if addiction is less about drugs & genetics and more about circumstances? It's a question the powers-that-be might not be comfortable hearing, but for decades Bruce Alexander has worked to make addiction as we know it a thing of the past.
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Long Beach's Community Action Team: A Copyable Model for Bettering One's World
February 02, 2015 | Justin Rudd is one little person in one little part of the world. But his work shows how one little person can make one big difference and provides a model that can be copied anywhere.
