Stories tagged "humanity"

In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies show we're living in the most peaceful times.

The babies born between 1965 and 1970 were historic. They were part of the highest global population growth rate ever achieved, 2.1 percent a year. As Joel Cohen writes, Human population never grew with such speed before the 20th century and is never agai

Crisis demands statesmanship, which cannot be composed of calculation alone, but must reach for the unquenchable in the human spirit. Hope.

It turns out that the business of being a "self" is more fraught than cultural tradition and subjective experience tell us. John Donne be damned: Each person, most of us assume, is indeed an island, entire of him or herself, everyone his own man or woman

Book review: Behind every major historical phenomenon and every great civilisation lies a financial secret. Such is the starting point of Niall Ferguson's wonderfully accessible new book, a perfectly timed primer for the many seeking enlightenment on econ

All religions teach you to worship that Supreme Being. A truly religious person is one who with the help of religion turns into a better human being. True worship is to do your work to the best of your ability. By serving humanity you serve God.

Mehdi v. USA Plaintiff: Defendant: USA Case Number: 3:2008cv01531 Filed: October 6, 2008 Court: Connecticut District Court Office: New Haven Office [ Court Info] County: New Haven Presiding Judge: Judge Warren W. Eg

ONE hundred and sixty five years ago, a Scottish businessman set out his plans for a newspaper. James Wilson’s starting point was “a melancholy reflection”: “while wealth and capital have been rapidly increasing” and science and art “working t

If energy is the currency of life, biologists are closing in on the cost of living. No matter whether you're talking elephants or bacteria, a new study proposes that, pound

A U.S. soldier's adopted puppy missed his flight out of Baghdad Wednesday, in what has become the latest drama in the effort to save Ratchet the Iraqi dog.