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Good Deeds Fuel Good Deeds
Published February 10, 2010, 5:50 am, LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
The warm and fuzzy feelings you may experience after watching others perform virtuous deeds may in turn lead you to act altruistically as well, according to a new study based on the results of two separate experiments.
News Europe
Published February 9, 2010, 11:57 pm, Aljazeera
Thousands of Greek civil servants have gone on strike to protest the government's plans to freeze wages. The 24-hour stoppage grounded flights early on Wednesday and was expected to shut government offices and schools, and leave public hospitals taking emergency cases only.
Free art for everyone— if you can find it
Published February 9, 2010, 9:01 pm, Chicago Tribune
Patrick Skoff wanted his paintings to be noticed. So he started dropping them in plain sight, free for all Patrick Skoff and his friend Samantha Brown climbed from the van with a small painting. They placed it at the base of a statue, took pictures of it with their cell phones, typed in brief messages, then walked away.
Greek gov't workers strike amid reports of European lifeline
Published February 9, 2010, 8:06 pm, AFP via Yahoo! Asia News
Thousands of Greek civil servants were set to go on strike Wednesday to protest wage cuts as the government moves to grapple with a debt crisis that has sent shock waves through the eurozone.
Darwin's Compassionate View of Human Nature [Commentary]
Published February 9, 2010, 1:29 pm, Journal of the American Medical Association
JAMA. 2010;303(6):557-558. Darwin's little known discussion of sympathy reveals a facet of his thinking unknown to many, which is contrary to the competitive, ruthless, and selfish view of human nature that has been mistakenly attributed to a Darwinian perspective.
John Feffer: Rugged Collectivism
Published February 9, 2010, 12:45 pm, The Huffington Post
It's 1961. William Stockton, a well-respected doctor, is having a birthday dinner with family and friends. They toast his service to the community and joke...
Alan Gottlieb: When Worlds Collide
Published February 9, 2010, 12:01 pm, The Huffington Post
Denver's more affluent public school parents may soon feel they're being asked to ante up their children's education to the greater good.
Kids who give back
Published February 9, 2010, 11:41 am, The Daily Record
KITTITAS COUNTY- One day last December, Jered Newcomb, an 18-year-old senior at Kittitas Secondary School, and his buddy Cody Lopeman coughed up a cool $100 for lunch.
Share Well With Others: How To Get Social Content To Go Viral
Published February 9, 2010, 6:18 am, Search Engine Land
Promoting content in social media is only half the battle. Once it is in the face of thousands of visitors, there needs to be some sort of emotional and psychological drive to get them to share that content with others.
Author speaks on empowerment of women :Calls on students to take on injustices in the world.
Published February 9, 2010, 3:59 am, South Bend Tribune
In the midst of global poverty and extremism in the developing world, education and the empowerment of women are the transformative solutions to gender inequality worldwide, according to Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and author of the best-selling book, "Half the Sky."
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