Paula Allen
Congratulations to "activist with a camera" Paula Allen, whose work is featured in the French postal service's new series of stamps focusing on the issue of violence against women and girls, and V-Day's efforts to end it. www.vday.org/node/1828
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Zainab Al-Suwaij
Good news from Iraq? Zainab Al-Suwaij travels to Basra every six weeks to work on three ongoing projects: Developing women's rights in the face of the Islamist movement; cultivating Ambassadors of Peace among tribal leaders, politicians and the young; and providing mental health services to 40,000 young people traumatized by the war. www.aicongress.org
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Tal Ben-Shahar
Post traumatic growth? The science of optimal love? Learn to fail or fail to learn? Watch the Big Think interview with positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar: bigthink.com/talbenshahar/big-think-interview-with-tal-ben-shahar.
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Daniel DeVivo
Filmmaker Daniel DeVivo has created the website 90daystophoenix.com as a resource for news and discussion about the historical passage of Arizona's SB 1070 — a new law that makes illegal presence a state crime and requires police to determine a person's citizenship.
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Daniel Ellsberg
The documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" was nominated for an Oscar in the documentary category, 2010 Academy Awards. Congratulations!
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Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky and her students have begun to run experiments in the U.S., UK, South Korea, and Japan to test how and why happiness-increasing strategies work, as well as to explore genetic and environmental influences on how people respond to happiness-increasing interventions.
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Mark Matousek
Matousek is currently working on a new book, Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, about the emerging science of a global morality. The book is scheduled for release by Doubleday in 2010.
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Hedda Nussbaum
Hedda Nussbaum continues to offer her knowledge about domestic violence to corporations, where the effects of domestic abuse are staggering. A study of domestic violence survivors found that 74% of employed battered women were harassed by their partner while they were at work. The annual cost of lost productivity due to domestic violence is estimated as $727.8 million, with over 7.9 million paid workdays lost each year.
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Danny Schechter
"Plunder: The Crime of Our Time" is a hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity, uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed. www.plunderthecrimeofourtime.com
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Deborah Siegel
Deborah Siegel has become Vice President at Large at She Writes, a place where women writers get support and services for every stage of their writing lives.
She'll be working closely with Founder/CEO and fellow author Kamy Wicoff to build out the Ning-based social networking site, which has gathered 6,000 members in its first 6 months.
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Jacquette Timmons
Jacquette Timmons' book Financial Intimacy was recently released by Chicago Review Press. In it, Timmons endeavors to turn money into the unlikely tool that brings couples together. Beverly Goodman, Senior Editor, Smart Money says Financial Intimacy "goes beyond telling couples how to manage their debt and invest for the future; it shows couples how to make those conversations routine and painless."
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James Traub
Read James Traub's new weekly column, "Terms of Engagement" online in "Foreign Policy".
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Bill Wallauer
Videographer Bill Wallauer is in Gombe, Tanzania to cover all of Jane Goodall's events around her Gombe 50 celebration. July 14, 1960 is the day 26-year-old Jane Goodall arrived in Gombe, instructed by famed anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey to observe the behavior of the resident chimpanzees in order to better understand humans. Her early findings—that chimpanzees make and use tools, eat meat and engage in war-like activity—profoundly altered our understanding of what it means to be human. www.janegoodall.org/gombe50/reflections/bill-wallauer
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