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The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. We All Need Transit — Whether We Ride It or Not Without public transit, I couldn’t have gotten my degree. And all of us need it to keep our planet livable. I owe my college education to a lot of things, but two come especially to mind. One was a scholarship. The other was public trans...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Water Is Life. Can We Protect It? Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador. From West Texas to Jackson, Mississippi, tens of millions of people struggled through late winter storms that froze pipes, broke water ma...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. “I’m Still 22.” Ilhan Sami çOmak, a Poet in a Turkish Prison “‘I long to see vineyards in bloom, I long to get out into streets where children climb over garden walls to skip school, I long for rivers that run out of maps.”   LITERARY EVENT Last March 8th, Pen Norway celebra...

Creative Commons Find news by topic CC Belgium January 29, 2021 We are happy to introduce CC Belgium—the new CC Chapter in the heart of Europe. We have been running as an informal chapter for more than 10 years with different people as Chapter Leads. For several years, a team led by Severine Dussolier from CRID at the University of Namur, stewarded the translations of the CC License Suite (adapting them to Belgian law). The Chapter was then led by Yannick H’Madoun (with KU Leuven at that t...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. New Type of Soil Waters Plants by Itself A new type of soil can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, researchers report.   The self-watering soil could potentially expand the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reduce water use in a...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. One Spouse’s View of Aging May Sway the Other’s Health Elderly people can expect their health to decline—as well as that of their spouse—when their self-perceptions about aging become negative, a new study suggests.   The study finds that health effects differ by gender among eld...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Parents: More TV for Kids Can Amp up Your Stress There’s bad news for parents who frequently plop their kids in front of the TV to give themselves a break: It might actually end up leaving moms and dads more stressed, according to new research.   Why? Because the more television that k...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Remote Learning Adds Major Pressure for Teacher Moms The transition to remote learning coupled with an unequal distribution of second-shift responsibilities has placed teachers who are also mothers under immense stress, according to a small new study.   Researchers explored the experienc...

Nanotech Jumps Blood-Brain Barrier To Kill Cancer in Mice A new synthetic protein nanoparticle capable of slipping past the nearly impermeable blood-brain barrier in mice could deliver cancer-killing drugs directly to malignant brain tumors, new research shows.   The study is the first to demonstrate an intravenous medication that can cross the blood-brain barrier. I’ve worked in this field for more than 10 years and have not seen anything like this. The discovery could one day allow new cli...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Noise and Light Pollution Hinder Bird Reproduction New research shows a link between increases in noise and light pollution and the timing of when songbirds nest, the number of eggs they lay, and other factors important to their reproduction.   The distant hum of a lawnmower on an early ...