The poor live with lawlessness, poor nutrition, low quality of education, and have so little cash reserves that simple mistakes or health problems can have devastating consequences. The poor live with lawlessness, poor nutrition, low quality of education, and have so little cash reserves that simple mistakes or health problems can have devastating consequences. The …
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Diabetes screening event in India. Photo via World Diabetes Foundation While countries have managed to decrease deaths from infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, stroke, mental illness and injuries are on the rise. By Margaret A. Caudill-Slosberg, MD, PhD, MPHContributing Writer While countries have managed to decrease deaths …
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The Sufis have been using carefully constructed stories for teaching purposes for thousands of years as a means of stimulating and stabilizing an expanded consciousness. Though on the surface these often appear to be little more than entertaining fairytales or folktales, they enshrine — in their characters, plots, and imagery — patterns and relationships that …
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Savelugu Girls Model School in northern Ghana. Photo: Lotte Ærsøe/Oxfam IBIS. Education is a powerful catalyst for change. Education can help lift people out of poverty, enhance health, and transform attitudes by providing essential life skills. All children deserve access to quality education, regardless of wealth or gender. Technology can improve access, but it must …
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Featured Book Summary of Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Laureate in Economics who is a psychologist by training. He won the prize mostly for his work in decision making, specifically Prospect Theory. This book distills a lifetime of work on the engine of human thinking, highlighting our cognitive biases and …
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Featured Book Multimind A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior By Robert E. OrnsteinContributing Writer The author notes that since the publication of his breakthrough work “The Psychology of Consciousness,” the scientific understanding of the brain has become more detailed and specific. Rather than confining our understanding to two minds: the rational mind, dependent …
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Featured Book The Business of Changing the World How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry Raj KumarHardcover edition 2017 In 2000, Raj Kumar and friends created Devex, an online community for global development that matches up organizations with funding opportunities and provides the largest database of grants, tenders, and …
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Reproduced from the PATH website at www.path.org 7-15-19. About 830 women die from pregnancy or childbirth related complications around the world every day. By Margaret A. Caudill-Slosberg, MD, PhD, MPHContributing Writer About 830 women die from pregnancy or childbirth related complications around the world every day. Of the 130 million babies born worldwide each year, about 2.7 …
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Featured Book The Axemaker’s Gift Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture James Burke and Robert OrnsteinPaperback edition 1997 Each time the axemakers offered a new way to “cut and control” the world to make us rich or safe or invincible or knowledgeable, we accepted the gift and used it. And when we …
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“I will never be the artist I was as a child.” — Willa Cather By Kathleen Mazor, EdD, MSContributing Writer Human beings are unique in that 75% of our human brain growth takes place outside the womb in the care of adults, almost all in the first three to five years of life. How is this …
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Bonobos and Chimpanzees show traits of self-recognition, toolmaking, language and other traits. All animals adapt, develop and diversify over time to ensure their species’ survival, so it’s not surprising that we share characteristics with our nearest relatives. Some of these are less well known, and quite surprising. 1. Self-recognition Joshua Plotnik, a graduate student in …
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