Cmax is an Emergency Shelter System Prototype that provides immediate housing for refugees. It is created to dignify and improve the quality of life of peopl...
The World Health Organization is the driving force behind global health -- impacting all of our lives, whoever we...
The World Health Organization is the driving force behind global health -- impacting all of our lives, whoever we are, wherever we live... http://www.who.int
Professor Jeffrey Sachs has been awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal for his global contribution. He is widely considered...
Professor Jeffrey Sachs has been awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal for his global contribution. He is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on economic development, global macroeconomics, and the fight against poverty. His work on ending poverty, overcoming macroeconomic instability, promoting economic growth, fighting hunger and disease, and promoting sustainable environmental practices, has taken him to more than 125 countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s population.
Facing the throwaway comment that “you can’t be black and queer”, Suriya Aisha, creator of social support network...
Facing the throwaway comment that “you can’t be black and queer”, Suriya Aisha, creator of social support network UNMUTED, saw nobody visibly living in the i...
Craig Alexander reviews an analysis from a TD Economics report on the benefits of investing in early childhood...
Craig Alexander reviews an analysis from a TD Economics report on the benefits of investing in early childhood education. He outlines the gains for children,...
What ever happened to letting "boys be boys?" Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for...
What ever happened to letting "boys be boys?" Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun. In another, a teacher was so alarmed by a picture drawn by a student (of a sword fight), that the boy's parents were summoned in for a conference. In short, boys in America's schools are routinely punished for being active, competitive, and restless. In other words, boys can no longer be boys. Christina Hoff Sommers, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, explains how we can change this.
When Wendy Pogozelski began studying the primary literature in the field of nutrition, she was shocked to find...
When Wendy Pogozelski began studying the primary literature in the field of nutrition, she was shocked to find enormous differences between the nutrition adv...
Joris Luyendijk is a journalist and a publicist with a banker’s blog on The Guardian. For this episode of VPRO...
Joris Luyendijk is a journalist and a publicist with a banker’s blog on The Guardian. For this episode of VPRO backlight, he dives into the financial brain o...
A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, polls now show. But that's where support for drug legalization...
A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, polls now show. But that's where support for drug legalization ends. A series of HuffPost/YouGov survey...