Navigating the delicate balance between selflessness and self-interest. From the evolutionary roots of altruism to its modern-day manifestations.

The call to prayer (Azaan) fills the neighborhood. You rush to your vehicle amidst the chirping of the birds and whistling of the wind on a dimly sunny Friday, hoping to make it just in time for the ...

Pilina is an indigenous Hawaiian word, or concept, that describes our deep interconnectedness. Harvard clinical psychology fellow Jo Qina'au guides us through a contemplation of our profound ...

Damabiah is a female guardian angel who protects people born between 10th and 14th February. 😇 Although she is considered ...

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic ...

If billionaires actually cared about saving the planet, they’d pool their vast wealth and buy everyone a heat pump. But it’s ...

That’s why, as chief joyologist at Tito’s Handmade Vodka—seriously, that’s her real job title—she strives to incorporate the principles of altruism into all aspects of the company’s ...

Today's lesson is altruism. This week, we hear a story about a young man who finds a 20-dollar bill in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. What he decides to do with it is priceless.

Because you predict that you would be much happier as a lottery winner than an accident victim. Such a study was actually ...

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 ...

The real story, however, may be the OpenAI board’s concerns about AI safety, which in turn stem from the outsized influence of effective altruism in Silicon Valley. The safety of AI likely ...

In the bustling halls of Westchase Elementary School in Tampa, Florida, there’s a young artist making waves not only with his ...