As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our ...

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Researchers have documented orcas seemingly gifting rays, seals and fish to scientists and divers, which could suggest they ...

Recent economic studies confirm, encouragingly, that a career in medicine tends to attract people of above-average altruism and conscientiousness, as well as ability.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

‘Effective altruism’ isn’t as newfangled as it seems. Times have changed since the days of Carnegie and Rockefeller, but much in philanthropy has remained the same.

IDEAS The moral failing of ‘effective altruism’ The multibillion-dollar rise and catastrophic fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX stemmed from an idea taken to an absurd — yet predictable ...

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 ...