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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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The city didn’t allow rent to keep pace with costs, leaving a Harlem complex — like many rent-stabilized properties — under ...

The analysis of 3 dozen studies found similarities and differences in motivating factors for and against clinical trial ...

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 ...