Brown poop can indicate good health.
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The answer is more complicated than you might think. It has to do with how your body gets rid of old red blood cells.
Used car and truck prices are up 31% over the previous year.
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Inflation is rising at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan was president.
Charity fundraising materials often include stereotypical images of life in low-income countries.
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These photos tend to oversimplify the issues that cause poverty and the suffering of poor people in low-income countries.
Nonprofits are seeking to diversify their leadership.
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When staff members learn how to acknowledge and talk about their social differences, nonprofits can get better at developing strategies, forming alliances and mobilizing people, a recent study found.
You never know where Uncle Sam will make an appearance.
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The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not.
Apple reportedly has policies designed to encourage consumers to touch its products.
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New research shows people experience the ‘endowment effect’ of valuing an object more when they can touch it, even in virtual settings.
Baby talk is cute when used with babies. But when adults converse with each other? Not so much.
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As many as two-thirds of couples do it.
Black men who have sex with men in Southern states have a low rate of using HIV prevention treatments.
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This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Donations channeled through DAFs follow different patterns than for overall charitable giving.
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Little comprehensive research about what the charitable accounts, known as DAFs, are supporting has been conducted until now.
For almost as long as there have been computers, there have been video games.
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Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?
Career technical education courses are linked to higher rates of school engagement for high schoolers from low-income backgrounds.
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Students from low-income backgrounds fare better when they are able to take career and technical classes in STEM, new research shows.
A dairy barn in Waitsfield, Vermont, built circa 1890.
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Barns are practical buildings, designed to safeguard farm animals and equipment. Why are so many of them painted to stand out from the landscape?
As the rate of tick-borne diseases rises, vaccines that stop ticks in their tracks could be an essential preventive tool.
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The study found that ticks were unable to feed on guinea pigs vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine, preventing transmission of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease.
Gun violence spiked in more than half of all U.S. states in the first 13 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The pandemic brought about a sharp rise in mental health concerns, deep unemployment and an unprecedented amount of social isolation – a potentially deadly combination alongside rising gun sales.
Giving a portion of one’s wealth annually is part of the spiritual practice in Islam.
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Zakat, or charity, is a fundamental practice within the Islamic faith.
Nearly 80% of participants in FDA-reviewed research trials live in foreign countries.
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Regulatory loopholes for research conducted off US soil allow for questionable trials and misleading data to slip under the FDA’s radar.
Grandchildren and other heirs to a fortune may want to support different kinds of charities.
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Decades of data indicate that over time, the foundations gave less to the founder’s own community and religious causes. But the share of their donations supporting social movements rose.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry spoke at the announcement of the Global Methane Pledge.
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Of the big pledges so far at the UN climate conference, cutting methane could have the most immediate impact.
A Muslims Giving Back volunteer delivers warm food to a homeless man in New York City in April 2020.
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Muslims also gave more to causes tied to relief from economic and health problems that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bringing together people with different perspectives and roles can sharpen an organization’s vision.
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Asking for input is more common than letting stakeholders help set a foundation’s priorities or giving them any say where grant money flows.