Over the past decade there has been a surge of interest in a novel approach to helping the world's poor: Instead of giving them goods like food or services like job training, just hand out cash — with no strings attached. Now a major new study suggests that people who get the aid aren't the only ones who benefit.
The Bail Project
In conversation with TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi, Robin Steinberg shares how her nonprofit The Bail Project -- which uses a revolving fund to post bail for those who can't afford it -- is scaling up their efforts across the country and rolling out a new community-based model to fight mass incarceration.
For about a decade now, the charity GiveDirectly has been distributing cash straight to poor residents in sub-Saharan Africa, starting in Kenya and expanding later to Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Morocco.
When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas on Sept. 1, local disaster response agencies quickly realized they needed help. But not the kind of help you might expect: They needed mappers.
Through May 15, 2019, UK Aid will match every pound donated to Sightsavers, up to £2 million. Give now to double your impact.
The San Diego Police Department has tasked a research group, Center for Policing Equity with analyzing police traffic-stop data collected over more than a year — an effort that could reveal racial biases within the agency.
Watch Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on policing practices.
Re-imagining Public Safety: Prevent Harm and Lead with the Truthis a joint effort between the Center for Policing Equity and the Yale Justice Collaboratory. The goal is to highlight the policies that science and experience say have the best chance to make the most progress towards producing public safety systems that are both effective and align with our values.
Metal claws and suction samplers can be rough on delicate deep sea creatures. So scientists have designed a gentle robot to scoop up the organisms they want to study.
Biologists have created a protein unlike any found in nature, with the power to toggle a cell’s functions on and off. The scientists linked the artificial proteins together into circuits and controlled the inner workings of yeast — and also implanted these proteins into lab-grown human cells.
A new breed of protein engineers is finding that the best way to create a molecule is to build it from scratch.
Salk Institute researchers have discovered a gene that determines whether roots grow deep or shallow in the soil. These findings, published July 11, 2019, will allow researchers to develop plants that can help combat climate change as part of Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative.
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