# Inspiring

How Bald Chickens Help Troubled Kids

They are miserable-looking creatures. Featherless, off-balance, skittish to the point of terror. Also, incredibly lucky. These are "rescue" chickens, formerly caged as egg producers in an industrial hatchery somewhere in southern Ontario. The chickens are being used as therapy animals to treat a small group of troubled children living in a nearby group home. Shepherd […]

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How to Change People's Behavior: Make it Fun. VW Does

Can we get more people to throw their trash in the bin by making it fun? Can fun encourage more people to sort recyclables? Will more people exercise if it's fun... Volkswagen says yes, through a set of experiments in a new project called The Fun Theory.

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Bringing on Hope - Using a Big Sign

In every town, big and small, there are people feeling turmoil and fear. Maybe they lost a job, a home, or a loved one. Maybe they struggle with disease or economical hardship. In every case, hope is needed. In every case, hope can be shared with a very simple action. We hope this homemade sign […]

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Corvettes Bring Tons of Toys to Atlantic City

A Corvette parade longer than 10 miles snaked down the Atlantic City Expressway each car filled with Christmas toys their drivers were bringing to the Marine Corps' Toys For Tots campaign.

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Rich Germans Demand Higher Taxes

A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.

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Clean Smells Promote Moral Behavior, Study Suggests

People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor.

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Transforming Abandoned Concrete Bunkers Into Eco Hostels

There are reportedly thousands of abandoned concrete bunkers scattered throughout Albania, remnants of a Communist dictator's paranoia. Now graduate students have developed a plan called Concrete Mushrooms that would ‘invert the meaning' of these structures by turning them into an economic asset -- a network of habitable eco-hostels, cafés, gift shops and more.

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Citizens Arrive by the Hundreds to Help the Hungry

A Wisconsin "empty bowls" event featured local pottery artists and bowls fashioned by area schools as a fundraiser for the local food pantry. Hundreds of Wausau residents chose their favorites from among rows of clay bowls donated. Some of the best chefs in town ladled soups into the new bowls for a fee of just […]