Once upon a time a world was created and we all believed it was true. Maybe we fell in love with the reflection of our past and future selves and we thought that we could be more like that one person over there. And so we tried to do that. And maybe we created a bunch of schools in order to learn...

Before we talk about those goats and suggest a better way for Americans to give a different form of thanks on our own special day of abundance, let’s explore the need these animals fill in rural India. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the U.N. e...

There are LOTS of things in this world that make the average person stop and scratch their head to wonder… "why exactly are we doing things this way?" We all know that Electronic Health Records have made patients’ health records legible and readable--the days of illegible, one or two line patien...

You have been taught to expect your happy chemicals to flow all the time. You think others enjoy this, so you must have you have a disorder if you don’t. You think a professional can fix your brain the way a mechanic fixes a car. Let’s rethink this. The chemicals that make us feel good are inhe...

LRT’s Cary Harrison puts LRT’s “Awareness” model to good use today when the famed KPFK.fm partnered with the national charity, RIP Medical Debt, to abolish one million dollars in unpayable medical debt currently burdening LA county. It’s even more aggressive than that.  Between the hour of...