Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1971, the philosophy department at Oxford University was confronted with an unusual student. One of the few vegetarians on ...

The theory of genuine altruism, instead, upholds the existence of motivations authentically oriented toward the well-being of ...

The contemporary effective altruism movement seeks to transform philanthropy in two ways: 1) by directing philanthropy to the most important objectives, and 2) by ensuring that philanthropic dollars ...

The big A.I. labs’ starry-eyed founders believed that the only way to stop the looming threat of a superintelligence that ...

Forbes recalculated the wealth of the richest billionaires to add back in what they gave to charity. Here’s who moves up the ...

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Altruism might have evolved for fairly selfish reasons, at least in insects. When a warring termite colony loses its king and queen — the only members capable of reproduction — then its survivors ...

On 21st Street, between L and K, there is a homeless man who sits perched atop his small pile of possessions, observing, with a kind of detached curiosity, Washington’s harried pedestrians. I pass him ...

February 2 marks the birth of one of the most praised and vilified writers of the past century — Ayn Rand, who sold over 30 million books. This makes it an appropriate time to reconsider her ...

Has altruism increased with social complexity and sophistication? Might it actually be driving us towards a kindler, gentler and altogether more successful civilization? And can we engineer our own ...

Sonia Chopra, DDS is owner of Ballantyne Endodontics, the Founder of ESchool: Everyday Endo Made Easy and Co-Founder of A Night for Smiles. I believe contribution should be a core principle in every ...

Effective altruism is a social movement that relies on evidence and reasoning to figure out the best ways to help others. Its supporters include major Silicon Valley tech personalities like Elon Musk, ...