Advancing Good: Editor’s Note
“What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.”—Dorothea Dix All around us, things are advancing. Have you noticed? Next-generation robotics are completing tasks from weed control to harvesting or helping
Hope trumps despair
Easter ushers in spring, and hope is in the air. Easter has become a time for celebration, for enjoying the flowers, the warm greetings of a Sunday morning, special events, sumptuous dinners, excited voices of happy children and the pleasures of
Editor’s Note
Since 1943, we’ve accepted that people are motivated to achieve certain needs, moving on to the next only after one is fulfilled. Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined these needs in a hierarchy that is often depicted within a pyramid, ranging from
‘Will work for humanity’
It’s a small world. Isn’t it? We’re an interconnected and even interdependent transnational society. Communication is as easy with my neighbor as it is with a friend across the world. But it’s still a world with expansive difficulties—problems that are so big they
Survival of the kindest
Are we wired with a propensity to altruism? In an experiment with 24 children and 10 different situations, scientists Felix Warneken and Michael Tomasello tested the ability of an 18-month-old to help a non-family adult who was having trouble achieving a