Category: Humanity
Spring 2018 Edition: Introducing the Ascendant Economy
From the editor: At the current rate of change, it will take almost a century before women reach...
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Global Talent Summit Asks: What is Humanity in the Age of Automation?
When popular card game Cards Against Humanity conducted a survey of Americans in 2017 to get an...
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Fall 2017 Edition: Disaster and Development
From the editor: As we watched news reports of hurricanes, earthquakes, and flooding disasters...
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Book Review: “Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online” by Bailey Poland
Every morning, Bailey Poland wakes up and goes online, following a routine familiar to most of us:...
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Spring 2017 Edition: The Future is Female
From the editor: There’s an awakening sense among women that the personal is more political...
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3 Things You Can Do About the Syria Crisis
Since 2011, the world has watched as Syria descended into violence, and ever-increasing numbers of...
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During National Small Busines Week, Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Domestic Violence Survivors
As part of National Small Business Week, FreeFrom launched an incubator that helps survivors of domestic violence start their own businesses.
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Addressing India’s Sanitation Crisis
Anyone who has been to India has experienced the crisis in sanitation firsthand. Open defecation and its impact on water supplies have created a public health calamity that has caught the attention of the national and international leadership.
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New Brain Research Shows You Really Need to Stop Bragging About How Little You Sleep
New research published in an upcoming issue of Scientific American reveals a previously undiscovered system for clearing the brain of proteins and other wastes—and in an important revelation for our over-exhausted society, this system is most active during sleep.
Read MoreAfrica’s Rising Digital Impact
Interview with Danladi Verheijen, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Verod Capital Conducted by Chrisella Herzog in July 2013. This interview was part of a feature for Diplomatic Courier. Africa is currently one of the fastest...
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Health Officials at COP21 Call Attention to Public Health Crisis of Climate Change
The 2015 Climate and Health Summit was notable in that it was the first Summit — and the first Conference of Parties — where the many public health crises being caused by climate change were given attention by doctors and health professionals from around the world.
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Online Violence Against Women Risks Becoming ‘Global Pandemic’, UN Report Says
Nearly 75% of women online globally report they have experienced online violence of some form, and the same percentage of women online report they have received sexually explicit harassing messages, according to a report released by the UN today.
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