On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to ...

Humans are hard-wired to care for and protect each other. Becoming kinder is just like riding a bike ...

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan once considered herself an effective altruist. As a college student in India, she immersed herself in the social movement, reading its canonical texts like Doing Good Better, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1971, the philosophy department at Oxford University was confronted with an unusual student. One of the few vegetarians on ...

The Horizon Institute for Public Service, a nonprofit organization with extensive ties to the tech-adjacent effective altruism movement, has deployed a small army of fellows at influential think tanks ...

Penny Lane's new Netflix documentary, Confessions of a Good Samaritan, delves into her life-changing decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. Known for her thoughtful and provocative storytelling, ...

Playing virtual reality games can make you a kinder person, according to new research. They increase a player’s desire to help others, say scientists. Researchers found that VR games may increase a ...

At Boston College, the “men and women for others” spirit guides the mission of the many on-campus volunteer and philanthropic organizations dedicated to helping both the Boston and global community.

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(The Conversation) — One of the ways tech billionaire Elon Musk attracts supporters is the vision he seems to have for the future: people driving fully autonomous electric vehicles, colonizing other ...