- Automattic, Mozilla, Twitter and Vimeo urge EU to beef up user controls to help tackle ‘legal-but-harmful’ content https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/09/automattic-mozilla-twitter-and-vimeo-urge-eu-to-beef-up-user-controls-to-help-tackle-legal-but-harmful-content/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+techcrunch+%28techcrunch%29 3 comments europe
- Americans want US to help get Gaza civilians out of harm's way-Reuters/Ipsos poll https://www.reuters.com/world/americans-want-us-help-get-gaza-civilians-out-harms-way-reutersipsos-2023-10-16/ 41 comments politics
- BBC- The race to make diesel engines run on hydrogen. Studies have shown that controlling the mixture of hydrogen and air inside the cylinder of the engine can help negate harmful nitrogen oxide emissions, which have been an obstacle to the commercialisation of hydrogen motors https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64248564?h2fd= 21 comments energy
- Report: Nuclear propulsion would help military satellites maneuver out of harm’s way https://spacenews.com/report-nuclear-propulsion-would-help-military-satellites-maneuver-out-of-harms-way/ 81 comments space
- 'Ethereum Killers’ Are Helpful, Not Harmful - In the short run, we have been able to onboard hundreds of thousands of users into crypto who would have been priced out of Ethereum’s base layer. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/17/ethereum-killers-are-helpful-not-harmful/ 17 comments cryptocurrency
- Making mindfulness meditation more helpful starts with understanding how it can be harmful | Interesting study about possible adverse side effects of mindfulness meditation https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-05-18/adverse-effects 27 comments science
- Making mindfulness meditation more helpful starts with understanding how it can be harmful. Of the 96 participants, 58% reported at least one meditation-related adverse effect, which ranged from perpetual hypersensitivity to nightmares to traumatic re-experiencing. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-05-18/adverse-effects 27 comments science
- Recent research in JPSP suggests that people are more likely to be honest when it helps them to achieve their goals. They will also avoid information that their honesty has harmed others. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/202104/people-can-use-honesty-justify-selfishness 2 comments cogsci
- A single positive experience on a psychedelic drug may help reduce stress, depression and anxiety symptoms in Black, Indigenous and people of color whose encounters with racism have had lasting harm, a new retrospective study suggests. https://news.osu.edu/one-psychedelic-experience-may-lessen-trauma-of-racial-injustice/ 124 comments science
- How Much Trump Could Help (Or Harm) Down-Ballot Republicans In November https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-trump-could-help-or-harm-down-ballot-republicans-in-november/ 5 comments politics
- GOP Senator Who Voted for Trump Tax Cuts and Corporate Slush Fund Says 'Not Enough Money' to Help Everyone Harmed by Covid-19 | "They took care of their billionaire buddies and Wall Street bankers. Now they're trying to say there's 'not enough' left to help you and your family. It's a lie." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/11/gop-senator-who-voted-trump-tax-cuts-and-corporate-slush-fund-says-not-enough-money 548 comments politics
- A UK laboratory is searching for 24 of the world’s bravest volunteers to help find a cure for the coronavirus – and be paid handsomely for it. (Context: a lab is offering $AUD6947 to volunteers to be infected with a 'less harmful' for of COVID-19 ) https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/health/the-new-treatments-that-could-beat-covid19-coronavirus/news-story/1e9a131a52c78928ef8203c381483338 7 comments worldnews
- E-cigarettes may help more than 50,000 smokers to stop smoking in England each year, suggests a new study (n=50,498). Research so far shows that vaping is less harmful than smoking tobacco and can help people to stop smoking. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/sfts-emh101019.php 11 comments science
- Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Hit to Homeowners: By reducing deductions for real estate taxes, Trump’s 2017 tax plan has harmed millions — and helped give corporations a $680 billion gift. https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-trillion-dollar-hit-to-homeowners 41 comments politics
- "I became an asylum officer to help people, now I put them back in harm's way." A passionate and personal take on the effect of this administration's immigration policies from the inside. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-became-an-asylum-officer-to-help-people-now-i-put-them-back-in-harms-way/2019/07/19/1c9f98f0-a962-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html 21 comments politics
- Dems struggling to help low-wage contractors harmed by shutdown [United States of America] https://thehill.com/policy/finance/425015-dems-struggling-to-help-low-wage-contractors-harmed-by-shutdown 8 comments economy
- The search for meaning in life was strongly associated with a need for excitement and greater support for political violence, suggests a new APA study. Interventions to counter violent extremism should include access to exciting, nonviolent alternatives that may help curb this impulse to harm. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/10/political-violence.aspx 3 comments science
- Cyberbullying makes young people more than twice as likely to self harm or attempt suicide, a major new study has shown (n= 156,384). The research also found that students who were cyber-victimised were less likely to report and seek help than those victimised by more traditional means. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/04/22/cyberbullying-makes-young-people-twice-likely-self-harm-attempt/ 5 comments science
- Science AMA Series: I'm Ben Bergen, Cognitive Scientist at UC San Diego. Let’s talk about the science of swearing! How does it affect our brains? How did it evolve? Does it harm kids? Can it make you stronger? Will it help you get elected? AMA! http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/ 63 comments science
- Conserving honey bees does not help wildlife. Concern about the global decline in pollinators and loss of pollination services. Focused on the western honey bee (Apis mellifera). Research shows managed honey bees can harm wild pollinator species. Incentive to change honey bee management practices. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6374/392 4 comments science
- Trump’s policies will harm coal-dependent communities instead of helping them https://theconversation.com/trumps-policies-will-harm-coal-dependent-communities-instead-of-helping-them-82632 3 comments politics
- Vulgar misogyny didn’t harm Donald Trump – it helped him https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/05/donald-trump-pussygate-bully-women 5 comments politics
- Raúl Grijalva: Republican ACA replacement harms those who need help most http://tucson.com/news/opinion/column/guest/ra-l-grijalva-republican-aca-replacement-harms-those-who-need/article_1c9c471f-27b1-564b-992a-a867dcae451c.html 5 comments politics
- This new compound could help kill up to a quarter of all cancer types: "What makes S63845 so promising is that, in addition to cutting off cancer's life support system, it can be given at doses that don't harm normal cells, the team suggests." http://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-compound-could-help-treat-up-a-quarter-of-all-cancers 121 comments science
- grabbing 50kg girl falling from about 12meters can (seriously) harm a 80kg adult man? and actually can help to survive her? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/513sdj/grabbing_50kg_girl_falling_from_about_12meters/ 4 comments askscience
- TPP more likely to harm than help American workers http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-tpp-fair-trade-deal-lipinski-perspec-0810-md-20160809-story.html 773 comments politics
- Bolivia plans to build $300m nuclear complex with research reactor | President Evo Morales reassured public that controversial project, which will use Russian technology and help from Argentina, will not harm environment http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/bolivia-nuclear-complex-reactor-russia-environment 4 comments worldnews
- Study Finds Psychedelic Drugs Might Actually Be Helpful and Not Harmful http://www.piercepioneer.com/study-finds-psychedelic-drugs-might-actually-helpful-not-harmful/38646 8 comments science
- Fifty years of the Cuban embargo. Has it helped at all? Has it caused more harm than good? http://cuba-embargo.procon.org/ 25 comments history
- "Somehow Washington has failed to get the message. This deal doesn’t end the cutting; it only reduces its severity. It doesn’t generate jobs; it only cuts fewer of them. It doesn’t help the economy; it only reduces the harm to it." http://ourfuture.org/20131212/the-bipartisan-budget-deal-and-the-economy-the-beatings-continue 73 comments politics
- To address all the confusion around what DRM actually does and why it's harmful, this new FAQ should help! http://www.defectivebydesign.org/new-drm-faq 31 comments linux
- Yelling doesn't help, may harm adolescents, Pitt-Led study finds. Impact of harsh verbal discipline similar to that of physical discipline, researchers report. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/uop-ydh090413.php 73 comments science
- Musing on Mortality Can Both Help and Harm: We run from the subject like there's no tomorrow, but thinking about death can ease our angst and make us better people, too http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=musing-mortality-both-help-harm 13 comments cogsci
- Raising Minimum Wage: A Help Or Harm? Will placing more money in the pockets of workers help the economy or just hurt businesses? http://www.npr.org/2012/07/08/156458470/raising-minimum-wage-a-help-or-harm?ps=cprs 308 comments politics
- Too much aid will hobble Arab spring — Within months of toppling their dictatorships, Egyptians and Tunisians have been promised significant financial help from the international community. This may do more harm than good. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/12174874-9147-11e0-9668-00144feab49a.html#axzz1puactsj6 4 comments worldnews
- Please sign this petition to provide funding for Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Preservation and Use in NY. Stem cells are taken from umbilical cords of born babies and can save lives now. No embryos are harmed!! We need your help! http://www.change.org/petitions/view/save_a_life_by_saving_umbilical_cord_blood_stem_cells 12 comments politics
- Facebook to recognize faces, help tag photos (Helpful Or Harmful, You Decide) http://edition.cnn.com/2010/tech/social.media/07/02/facebook.recognition/index.html?hpt=t2&fbid=n1bezj4vctf 9 comments technology
- You'd think that they would have done studies to determine if pot is harmful or helpful before declaring a war on it, wasting untold billions of dollars fighting it, and imprisoning millions of people for using it...Turn out it helps. http://www.guerillapost.com/2010/02/youd-think-that-they-would-have-done.html 19 comments politics
- Goldman Sachs urged bets against California bonds it helped sell. The Wall Street titan's activities could have harmed taxpayers, officials say. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-goldman11-2008nov11,0,1943014.story 4 comments economy
- Scientists have demonstrated a new potential treatment for bone cancer | A bioactive glass laced with a toxic metal was able to kill up to 99% of the cancer without harming healthy cells, and could even help regrow healthy bone after. https://newatlas.com/medical/toxic-glass-kills-99-percent-bone-cancer/ 28 comments futurology