Deep inside an ant nest, some of the youngest members are primed to die for the group. When infection strikes, these baby ...

In 1971, the philosophy department at Oxford University was confronted with an unusual student. One of the few vegetarians on campus, Peter Singer staged alarming demonstrations with papier-mâché ...

Google told us this is a "minor update to our rater guidelines with small clarifications and a handful of new examples." Google has pushed a minor update to its search quality raters guidelines PDF ...

Can helping others make us healthier? When scientists scanned the brains of people who donated money to charity, they found something surprising: Giving activated the same reward pathways as personal ...

A little after six o’clock in the evening on April 15, 2019, the Monday before Easter, while Mass was being celebrated, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris caught fire. Incompetent security staff ...

When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in a conference room and darts over to a whiteboard. He scrawls charts with swooping ...

Reprinted from "Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community during Times of Crisis" by Nicole Karlis, courtesy of University of California Press ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1943, at the height of the Holocaust, a courier for the Polish resistance, Jan Karski, arrived in the United States to bear witness to the gruesome ...

Charles Dickens once said, “Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.” PW spoke with three educators who are taking these words to heart this holiday season, and ...

“Altruistic” doctors who prioritize patient care over income and profit achieve dramatically better health outcomes with older patients, a finding that has powerful implications for U.S. health care ...

According to the prominent voice for effective altruism, Sam Bankman-Fried’s version of the philosophy was only one among many. When former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud in November ...

The effective altruism (E.A.) movement, which began with the premise that philanthropists should do the most good per dollar spent, injected pragmatism into an arena where good intentions can trump ...