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Want to Do Something Good for Your Health? Try Being Generous

Our initial findings provide some of the strongest evidence to date that daily decisions related to engaging in financial generosity can have causal benefits for physical health.

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Why Hate Speech by Presidential Candidates is Dangerous and Despicable

In suggesting that the staff of Planned Parenthood, Muslims, Black Lives Matter protesters, and Mexican immigrants are guilty of venal acts, these candidates are fanning the flames of hate.

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Workers Today Take On All Risk, Get No Reward

It’s estimated that in five years over 40 percent of the American labor force will be in such uncertain work; in a decade, most of us.

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Change

The Honorable Harvest: Lessons From an Indigenous Tradition of Giving Thanks

What if this holiday season we fill our shopping baskets with only that which is needed and give something back in return?

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Change

Portland Blocked Fossil Fuels, What Now?

Forging a wall of resistance from San Diego to Vancouver, BC.

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See

Remembering the Redwoods

“I remember being awestruck by the sheer magnificence of the place and the beauty of those trees.”

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Paris Attacks and Climate Change Push Us to Fix a World of Broken Systems

The displays of global solidarity show that the seeds of a new paradigm are being planted.

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Eat & Drink

Salted Caramel Apple Pie

I have been craving this pie—it is salty and sweet and gooey and messy and perfect. The key to good apple pie is…

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Explore

Check out the New Trans-Cascadia Ride, Inspired by the Trans-Provence

This year marked the inaugural Trans-Cascadia race. Inspired by the Trans-Provence, the race unfolds over four days with 21 stages and 32,000ft of descending trails.

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Reflect

Short Attention Span vs. Clock of the Long Now

A portrait of Danny Hillis, founder of the Long Now Foundation, and the construction of the 10,000-year clock.