Things Are Good » philanthropy http://www.thingsaregood.com Inspirational and good news. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Humans hard-wired to be generous http://www.thingsaregood.com/2007/05/30/humans-hard-wired-to-be-generous/ http://www.thingsaregood.com/2007/05/30/humans-hard-wired-to-be-generous/#comments Wed, 30 May 2007 15:04:49 +0000 Adam Clare http://www.thingsaregood.com/2007/05/30/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 think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves.

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Having Google throw it’s weight behind supporting ODF will hopefully have a positive impact on the adoption of the open file format. ODF is also supported by Sun Microsystems, IBM and Novell, among others.

Google has also decided that they want to try to save the world with their vast wealth through their charitable organization Google.org. Wired has a nice interview with the man who is in charge of this billion dollar initiative from Google.

Google makes Adsense, which we use here at ThingsAreGood.

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