Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Richard Fossey
A college education can set you up for a lifetime – though it can come with a hefty price tag
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- Written by: Rebecca Earle
The story about how we started to think this way about food is closely linked to the rise of the potato as a national starch.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Robert Reich explain how the wealthy and corporations receive billions in corporate welfare.
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- Written by: Claire Kelloway
A new report shows growth of dollar stores in low-income and rural communities furthers inequity and pushes out local businesses.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
The idea that has been passed around by most conservative and liberal government leaders and representatives is that little can be done for the people because "money" is in short supply.
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- Written by: Jeff Morgan, Trinity College Dublin
Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. So why are politicians and business leaders only now becoming so worried about robots causing mass unemployment?
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- Written by: Thom Hartmann Program
The banking system is a source of great confusion for many people, How was fractional reserve Banking put together, what is the history of banking in the United States?
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Robert Reich explains how the modern economy really works and what we can do expand economic opportunity. Watch More
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- Written by: Joshua Healy and Andreas Pekarek
Australia’s national minimum wage should become a “living wage”, according to a new campaign from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). But what exactly is a living wage?
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- Written by: Jasmine Fledderjohann, et al
There has been an impressive expansion in school enrolment in India since the early 2000s. Despite this, India is in the midst of a “learning crisis”, with improvements in learning lagging behind increases in enrolment.
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- Written by: Anna Varela
Society’s expectations about gender roles alter the human brain at the cellular level, according to a new paper.
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- Written by: Anjana Susarla
Every aspect of life can be guided by artificial intelligence algorithms – from choosing what route to take for your morning commute, to deciding whom to take on a date, to complex legal and judicial matters such as predictive policing.
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- Written by: Josh Brown
Solar power has seen a boom, but what happens to all the panels in a few decades when they’re no longer useful? And what about electronic devices with even shorter life spans?
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- Written by: Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
To end austerity and make the economy work better for the whole country requires transforming the tax system.
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- Written by: Sara Behdad
Traditionally, when a car breaks down, the solution has been to fix it. Repair manuals, knowledgeable mechanics and auto parts stores make car repairs common, quick and relatively inexpensive.
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- Written by: Nancy Modesitt
No matter how you slice the data, women in the U.S. earn a lot less than men. A typical woman working full-time makes 81 cents for every dollar a man earns, little more than the 77 cents she got a decade ago.
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- Written by: Anthony C. Infanti
What and how a country chooses to tax says a lot about its values. A core value built into the DNA of America, for example, is equality.
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- Written by: Robyn Metcalfe
In an outbreak that has now run for more than 28 months, at least 279 people across 41 states have fallen ill with multidrug-resistant Salmonella infections linked to raw turkey products.
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- Written by: Robert Breunig
It has not only boosted gross domestic product and budget revenue, as would be expected when with more people, but also also living standards
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- Written by: National University of Singapore
Reducing the number of debt accounts lowers the mental burden of people in poverty, research finds.
