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This radical idea could help reduce traffic jams in growing urban areas
Across the world, urban populations keep swelling. The increase in people commuting to cities is clogging up freeways, and most of the cars taking space up on roads are singe-occupancy vehicles. To fix the problem in the San Francisco Bay Area, a nonprofit has come up with a bill that could also be Read More...
Malala named youngest ever UN Messenger of Peace
Malala Yousafzai calls on other girls in Pakistan to be change-makers UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes Yousafzai as a "hero" (CNN)Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has been named the youngest ever UN Messenger of Peace, with a special focus on girls' education. The Read More...
5 TED talks on why climate change is a human rights issue
Learn about the ways climate change is deeply altering how we live, where we live and the foods we eat -- ultimately threatening some of our most basic human rights. TED Talks are free thanks to support from Now playing Mary Robinson Why climate change is a threat to human rights Climate change is Read More...
Why women's peace activism in World War 1 matters now
A hundred years ago, soon after winning reelection on the campaign slogan “He kept us out of war,” President Woodrow Wilson called on the U.S. Congress to authorize “a war to end all wars.” The U.S. entry into World War I abruptly ended a different campaign to end war. Read More...
Group meditation reduces murder rates in cities, new study confirms
Group meditation reduces the murder rate in cities. A new study focusing on 206 large US urban areas has confirmed earlier research by the Transcendental Meditation movement. The study shows on average a decrease of 28.4 percent in urban violence. According to the authors of the study, the Read More...
Philippine government, communist rebels restart peace talks without truce
Peace negotiations between the Philippine government and Maoist rebels started anew on Sunday in Oslo, but without any ceasefire and with both parties warning of continuing violence. The conflict between the government and the New People's Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Read More...
Germany plans to fight fake news on social media with hefty fines
Germany is tired of fake news and believes that social networks are not doing enough to fight it. Under new proposals by the government, social networks that fail to remove defamatory “fake news”, hate speech and illegal content could be fined up to €50m. According to the justice ministry, Read More...
Germany to press G20 on free trade in potential challenge to Trump
Germany will press G20 members to sign off on a set of principles including free trade at this week's meeting of the group's financial leaders, in what the Trump administration may perceive as a challenge to its more protectionist stance. In an unusual move, Germany, the host of the meeting, will Read More...
How activists in Seattle got the city to redirect funds from police to social services
Plans to spend nearly $150 million on a new police station in North Seattle signaled to the people that political leaders were more concerned with punishing residents than helping them. At a city hall meeting, residents of the city made it abundantly clear that this money should be used for social Read More...
Immigrants have made America. Here are 5 pioneers of the energy industry
The president is trying it again, and it may be helpful to remind him once more that anti-immigrant policies turn away bright young people. That’s why policies that suppress immigration also suppress innovation. Here are five pioneers who revolutionized the energy industry and who came to the Read More...