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I’m a Pediatrician in Michigan Who Created Rx Kids, One of the nation’s Largest anti-poverty Programs – here’s What I’ve... Community
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I’m a Pediatrician in Michigan Who Created Rx Kids, One of the nation’s Largest anti-poverty Programs – here’s What I’ve...

A pediatrician in Flint, Michigan spent years watching poverty quietly devastate the families she treated - noting it in charts, then setting it aside as something medicine couldn't touch. Dr. Mona Hanna refused to accept that boundary, and in 2024 she helped launch Rx Kids, a...

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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind – the Marginalian
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How Seniors Are Learning AI & Whatsapp in India with the Social Pathshala
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‘Our Forefathers Are Coming back’: Naga People Celebrate After Oxford Museum Agrees to Return Remains | Global Development | the...
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Yup’ik Immersion School Program in Alaska Opens Doors to Cultural Connection | Truthout
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Engineer Builds Wearable That Helps People with Parkinson’s Walk When Their Feet Freeze Technology
The Better India 1 hour ago

Engineer Builds Wearable That Helps People with Parkinson’s Walk When Their Feet Freeze

Amey Desai began his career fascinated by brainwaves and the mechanics of human movement - but it was his patients,...

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream – the Marginalian Arts
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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream – the Marginalian

A man on the edge of suicide - revolver in his drawer, nihilism in his heart - is stopped not by reason or hope, but...

Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: the Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood... Environment
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Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: the Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood...

Maria Popova traces the science of autumn leaf color back through two centuries of discovery, finding in...

Can Community Programs Reduce Gun Violence? Community
Greater Good 1 day ago

Can Community Programs Reduce Gun Violence?

For over a decade, the city of Richmond, California has been quietly proving something that statistics alone can't...

Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times – the Marginalian

Written at twenty-seven, in the thick of World War II, Albert Camus offered something rarer than comfort: a...

The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind – the Marginalian Environment
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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind – the Marginalian

Maria Popova's meditation on Zoë Schlanger's *The Light Eaters* begins with a quietly unsettling observation: humans...