Becton, Dickenson and Company (BD) is a medical technology company, one of the largest in the world and over 120 years old. They essentially invented the modern hypodermic needle, and in the last decade have spent over $30 billion in acquiring some of their competitors. Feel what you may about the cost of medicine, which […]
“Listen, I didn’t know that I wanted my name on your (expletive) factory but now that you floated it as an option, it is all that I want.”
Painter Sacha Jafri’s “The Journey of Humanity” will be the world’s largest canvas painting.
Lindelof isn’t just using history for shock value. He’s using it to raise awareness and funds for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Commission.
The tennis star has teamed up with Bella Canvas, Scholastic, and the National School Board Association.
During the protests over police brutality in the United States after the death on video of George Floyd, the police arrested over 10,000 protesters across the country in just the first two weeks, and they haven’t stopped. Some of the arrests for looting and violence, but others have been plainly unjust, such as the arrest […]
The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, awarded in Portugal, recognizes people or groups who have made impactful, novel, or innovative contributions to fighting or adapting to the reality of climate change around the world. It is a one million euro ($1.15 million) award to aid the efforts of its winners and extend their reach. For 2020, […]
David Gilmour has been on the world stage since he joined Pink Floyd in 1968, just a few months after they released “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” and made the charts. In ’85, he took over leadership of the band after Roger Waters departed. It’s in no small part to him that as […]
On Monday, July 6, the British government announced a £1.5 billion effort to help hard-hit arts organizations in the UK through the pandemic. Art institutions like the National Gallery have only just begun reopening, but performance venues still probably have months to go before they can resume operating at their normal occupancy levels. Several major […]
In early March, while governments were still figuring out how seriously to take the COVID-19 crisis, Andrew Yang seems to have seen the writing on the wall. The former Presidential candidate launched Humanity Forward, a nonprofit focused on continuing the promises of his platform, especially Universal Basic Income (UBI) and data privacy by encouraging new […]