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January 10, 2019
Imagine this: A Stanford sophomore envisions a medical device that can run hundreds of blood tests on just a pinprick of blood. The device would be […]
December 24, 2018
This is a lightly edited version of a meditation that I wrote trying to explain the meaning of Christmas without using the words God or Jesus. I […]
November 27, 2018
The Soul of Finance site deals with people and organizations that use finance for good. So, on this Giving Tuesday, I am making my recommendations for […]
November 22, 2018
I have worked for charities all my adult life. When I finished university, I started work with World Relief, where I helped train staff and volunteers […]
November 1, 2018
A Review of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. “People always lecture the poor: ‘Take responsibility for yourself! Make something of yourself!’ But with what raw […]
October 10, 2018
For those of you from more advanced countries with the metric system, the title to this post is “3.1 Kilograms and 42.2 Kilometers.” On Sunday, October […]
September 25, 2018
A review of the book Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth Every day the news provides us with more examples of how we as humans continue to fail […]
August 16, 2018
While searching for something else on the internet I came across this moving speech that Emmanuel Faber, CEO of Danone Yogurt, gave to his alma mater, […]
July 18, 2018
Too Much Noise to Be Heard? In this current political environment, not only in the US but in many other countries as well, it is […]
July 12, 2018
Last month, following the Rotary International Convention that brought 25,000 Rotarians to Toronto, about 100 of us met together to attempt to answer some audacious […]