Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage due to vague symptoms like bloating and pelvic pain, making early ...

Those efforts have helped inspire the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, a worldwide network of people who have made a commitment to fight global poverty and disease. Many members of EA have pledged to ...

What is altruism? And is there a particular personality type that naturally delivers acts of kindness to others?

Somewhere between the shimmer of a Muscadet and the bassline of Duke Ellington’s spirit, the Astor House was reborn. On ...

That is the way of rational, “effective altruism,” of which Singer, as we know, is an intellectual founding father. Effective altruism is a philosophical movement aimed at maximizing good ...

I used to believe that feeling lost meant I wasn’t doing enough. Being a freshman at USC facilitates consistent feelings of homesickness, isolation and even uncertainty about my future. Thus, ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...

Tour Read.. The Black Voice’s budget proposal was rejected by a 3-5 vote with four abstentions. The committee also voted to reject Effective Altruism’s budget proposal. There was brief debate over ...