Amazon Canopy Bridges Lead to 15K+ Safe Road Crossings
Just hours before installing the first canopy bridges near Alta Floresta, biologist Fernanda Abra found two marmosets dead on the road — a species already threatened with extinction. That grief became...
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At fourteen, Shmuel Klein -- a scholarly boy who knew nothing of war -- was handed a prison full of soldiers and told to run it. He couldn't, so he told them the truth: you run it. I'll sit up front...
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When Rob Burnside learned that a homeless student named Landerius Hayes was sleeping in his car but could no longer legally attend his school due to a change of address, he went home that day and told...
View ArticleThree Generations, One Food Truck
In 1974, Travis Holmes Sr. launched Birmingham, Alabama's first food truck. His son grew up beside him on it, racing to chop onions faster than his father. Then, at 26, that son was killed — leaving...
View ArticleFifteen Balloons Blocked His Rear Window
He had a car stuffed with fifteen birthday balloons and was soulfully singing along to a sacred chant when he reversed full-speed into a stranger's brand-new SUV. What Matthias Hombauer did next --...
View ArticleWhat You Don't Have to Carry
As a very young mother, Patricia Lim took on great responsibility in the care of her children and household. She took on even more to become a psychologist, and an executive for the UN in Brazil. After...
View ArticleShe Came Around the Counter
On the day of her mother's funeral, with rain splitting open a dry summer sky, Helen walked into an office store in Taree, Australia, to print a eulogy. It was nearing the end of 2015 and the...
View ArticleFive Decision-Making Lessons from Bugs
An ant has a poppy-seed-sized brain and no map, no manager, no meeting -- and yet ant colonies reliably find the shortest path to food every time. This piece explores five surprisingly practical...
View ArticleBirds as Sonic Neurotransmitters Across Species
At the confluence of a bird's two windpipes, sitting directly over its heart, is a sound-making organ no larger than a lentil -- and from this tiny syrinx, a dozen rings of bone and two dozen muscles...
View ArticleHe Sold His $100M Company to Clean Festival Floors
Xavier Ginesta built one of Spain's most celebrated companies — a global payments firm twice named a best place to work — and then sold it for over $100 million. Not to retire. Not to launch a startup....
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