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The Moral Imperative of Effective Altruism
February 23, 2017
This past August, a thousand or so entrepreneurs gathered in Berkeley, California to talk about making the world a better place. They represented the ...
Is The Universe Conscious?
November 5, 2016
I’ve been doing some reading lately about the role of consciousness in the Universe. Now up is Beyond Biocentrism, by Robert Lanza, one of the world’s ...
A Critical Thinking Perspective On The Election
October 28, 2016
The election is only eleven days away, and thank God for that. It’s creating unprecedented levels of anxiety and making lots of us wonder how, ...
Using Evidence To Do The Most Good: The Effective Altruism Global Conference
October 4, 2016
Effective Altruism (EA) is an emerging movement based on a simple idea: that we ought to use reason and evidence to do the most good in the ...
Are Randomly Controlled Trials Really The “Gold Standard” For Evidence?
August 31, 2016
Back from vacation and still metabolizing the caloric tsunami that swept through our house over the holidays. Now that the fruit cake and egg nog ...
Why Americans Don’t Trust Charities
August 4, 2016
An article in this week’s Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that 1 in 3 Americans lacks faith in charities, according to a new poll: More than 80 percent ...