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By now, few people question the reality that humans are altering Earth’s climate. The real question is: How quickly can we halt, even reverse, the damage?...Read more

"The path to flourishing is no simple issue of mind over matter. It also depends on society’s systems and structures: Safe, affordable housing. A living wage. Solutions to systemic racism. Affordable, quality food and health care, including mental health care". ....... Read more

"In ways big and small — in schools, in homes, in every facet of life — the United States fails to protect and support its children". Read more

"Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren’t ready to confront the legal quagmire of DNA theft. DNA is a trove of personal information that can be hard to keep track of and protect"  Read more

In the Bavarian village where I was raised, guns are a part of life. Mass shootings are not...Read more

As California begins statewide composting, the place that pioneered it in the ’90s shows how dramatically it can benefit a city. Read more

Six months of payments lifted millions of children out of poverty. Then they stopped. Read more

"Government-created monopolies, Import restrictions and ‘Lean’ supply chains have contributed to the problem". Read the full article

"Each morning, the people incarcerated in India’s open prisons head out to work, to visit family, or to simply wander the city. And at the end of the day, in virtually every case, they come back. The premise is simple: when a system trusts and respects its prisoners, the prisoners trust and respect the system. Could this work anywhere?" Continue reading

"Seventeen-year-old Benjamin Choi put his spare time during the pandemic to good use designing an accessible device that doesn’t require brain surgery"...... Read more

"The Western U.S. is in a water crisis, from California to Nebraska.......On the Colorado River, the country’s two largest reservoirs – Lake Powell and Lake Mead – are at their lowest levels in 50 years." Read more

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Every city’s streets have their own modes of transport, rhythms and rules – written and unwritten. Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), where a population of some 20 million moves by foot, bike, rickshaw, train and all forms of motor vehicle across crowded and lightly regulated streets See Video