Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

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Realizing that, with President Trump just turning 79 and completing his second term at 82, he deserves credit for living his ...

Douglas County's "Handouts Don't Help" campaign raises funds for homeless support, encouraging safe donation practices to aid local initiatives.

Effective altruism took off in 2011 when Scottish-born philosopher William MacAskill was inspired by a 1972 essay called “Famine, Affluence and Morality, ...

When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

Another reason that it can be hard to be altruistic right now is because people’s basic needs aren’t being met. So people don ...

Schwartz’s predecessor at Effective Altruism NYC isn’t at the bar, but I reach him by phone. “I totally looked up to this guy, this motherfucker who I hate now,” he says, of Bankman-Fried.

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Effective altruism has captivated Silicon Valley personalities like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, but the philosophy's stature has taken a big hit. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced ...

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Altruism may exist in honey bees, which is inherited through their mothers: study A new study suggests not only that honey bees can be altruistic, but that it is a maternal genetic trait ...