What we are primarily missing here is empathy. We are simply failing to see any perspective other than our own.When some people see the riots in Ferguson, all they see is a mob of criminals taking advantage of chaos by looting stores, rather than frust…

The evidence for empathy in elephants seems overwhelming, so can we now draw on our own empathetic nature to end their slaughter?Elephants, we all know, are in peril. We humans are waging what amounts to a war against them because they have something w…

Children love their new teaching assistants, says Clover Stroud, as classroom canines make reading a great adventure.   Wynona was trained by Tracey Berridge, a canine behaviourist trainer, who set up Dogs Helping Kids in 2003 to take dogs into c…

The practice of compassion meditation may be a powerful antidote to a drifting mind, new Stanford research shows.Compassion meditation focuses on benevolent thoughts toward oneself and others, as the researchers noted. It is different in this aspect th…