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Humans hard-wired to be generous

This is genuinely good news! According to a new study we want to help others!
The two say altruism is something that makes people feel good, lighting up a primitive part of the human brain that usually responds to food or sex.
Grafman and Moll have been scanning the brains of volunteers who were asked to [...]

May 30th, 2007
Topic: Body & Mind, Direct Action, Good Fact Tags: , , , , ,

Google Does Good

Some recent news about that massive search engine Google. The company has announced that it has joined a US lobbying group, the ODF Alliance, that supports the Open Document file format. Open Document is a Free (as in free speech) document format, an alternative to the standard Microsoft™ .doc format. It is nice [...]

July 14th, 2006
Topic: Freedom, Technology Tags: , , , , , , , ,