Institutions tasked with reshaping our future, and even the language we use to describe the world, are built on a foundational myth: that we are separate beings navigating a fragmented reality. But what if the crisis we face is not a collection of problems to solve, but a reflection of the very...
A towering 240-year-old purple beech tree is one of 143 ‘Remarkable Trees” in the French city of Sceaux, renowned for more than 65,000 trees across parks, green spaces and private properties. Protecting this plant heritage “is something that builds itself over time, it requires both individual and...
A child psychologist stands at an intersection with a protest sign about separated families. The next week, Ruth Pittard joins her — but with a sign that says only "LOVE." The psychologist looks at Ruth's sign, sets her own sign down, and says: "If your sign works, I'll never need mine."...
Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, Israeli Jews, and other entrepreneurs connect in workshops and meetings to form business start-ups in an accelerator program called 50:50. While many have and continue to experience terror in their homelands, they are worried: "I don't want my kids to be living in...
The assumption that humans naturally organize numbers in increasing value from left to right turns out to be far less universal than researchers once believed. While this "mental number line" holds true for many Western readers, studies of apes, monkeys, birds, and even native English speakers...
In the remote regions of the Himalyas, Lobsang Phuntsok was born in a nomadic family to a young, unmarried mother. She gave birth in secret in the family toilet and left the newborn covered in dried leaves. He was saved by his grandparents, who heard his cries and found him nearly dead. Called "the...
After Mike Sinyard, who has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), noticed that bike riding helped him focus, he founded the Specialized Bike Foundation, now Outride, whose “Riding for Focus” (R4F) program now is in 400 middle schools in the US and Canada. And it has had some astonishing...
After losing her husband of 35 years, then her sister and father within months, Lisa Jackson felt stripped of identity, plagued by "What's the point?" thoughts. She tried everything -- gong baths, cold-water swimming, junk food, intermittent crying -- searching for a way back to her old happy...
After a massive tornado displaced a third of the residents of Joplin, Missouri, and killed nearly 160 people in May 2011, stories of kindness and cooperation overwrote the tragedy - and still do. Almost 100,000 volunteers from nearly every state helped clean up debris and rebuild. Ranchers cooked...
A taxi driver in Hiroshima keeps his daughter's graduation photo on the dashboard. It's a reminder of the choice that transformed their relationship. Years ago, when she was young, she told him something that pierced through everything: "I remember mom reading to me. I remember grandma...