On the Thursday, November 13, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: In honor of World Kindness Day — we’ve partnered with the Humankind team at USA TODAY for a deeper exploration on the topic of ...

I am so intrigued by people who are altruistic, people who are so selfless that they help generously without any expectations. Pessimistically, we assume that people like this are rare to come by.

The volume of a small brain region influences one's predisposition for altruistic behavior. Researchers have shown that people who behave more altruistically than others have more gray matter at the ...

True altruism is rare behavior in animals, but a new study by Penn State researchers has found that honey bees display this trait. Additionally, they found that an evolutionary battle of genetics may ...

There’s a great value in being precise when it comes to communication (if you want your message to be understood as you intended it, anyway; when clarity isn’t the goal, by all means, be imprecise).

Eric Grau is President of Olberding Brand Family (OBF) a fourth-generation, family-owned company that brings out the best in brands. Does altruism have a place in business? I would sure like to think ...