The truth is that being empathetic is one of the most worthwhile traits a person can have. To not only be able to acknowledge one another’s wellbeing, but to actually feel what someone else is experiencing, and to truly connect at that core level, is …

Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, the nation’s first death row inmate exonerated by DNA, is pressing to end capital punishment in Maryland, the state that sought his execution.See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion

The secret to lasting happiness might be neatly summed up in a cheesy neuroscience joke: “The neurons that fire together, wire together.” “It’s a classic saying, and it’s widely accepted because it’s very true,” neuropsychologist…

In the early 1990s a young Englishman walked up the steep mountainside that surrounds Rio de Janeiro and into a favela, a slum unlike anything seen in the United States. It was a place ruled by drug gangs and the daily scene of murders and gun fights b…