These smart ideas for encouraging children to be more empathetic are from Start Empathy, a new education initiative created by the nonprofit Ashoka. The goal is to get kids and adults thinking about the topic—key for raising kids who un…

A new large-scale study has found that practicing positive moral character traits improves personal well-being.   Investigators from the University of Zurich found the largest benefits of practicing positive traits occurred when an individual rec…

We tend to think of medicine as being all about pills and potions recommended to us by another person—a doctor. But science is starting to reveal that for many conditions another ingredient could be critical to the success of these drugs, or perh…

A new documentary peels back the curtain on the problem of food insecurity in the U.S. It shows that hunger and obesity are more closely connected than many of us realize.Jim Manske’s insight:This is social change!See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compa…