Making Choices That Benefit Humanity [Pathways]

How Does Educational Technology Benefit Humanity? Five Years of Evidence

This article presents a review of the 25 finalists (Laureates) in the Education category of the Technology Benefiting Humanity Awards, which started in 2001. Most of the applicants can be considered social entrepreneurs working to improve educational systems and the learning opportunities and experiences of their intended beneficiaries. While the benefits to humanity derived from educational te...

Making safer treatment choices

Integrated Decision Making – The Choices

Making Fair Choices: a symposium.

Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage (World Health Organisation, 2014) offers an analysis of how lowand middle-income countries may follow a path to universal health care in ways consistent with principles of fairness. The report addresses three questions. Which services should policymakers expand first? To whom priority should be given when extending coverage? and Shoul...

Making choices: the neurophysiology of visual-saccadic decision making.

Imagine the decisions you might make while playing a simple game like 'matching pennies'. At each play, you and your opponent, say the mathematician John vonNeumann, each lay down a penny heads or tails up. If both pennies show the same side, vonNeumann wins, if not, you win. Before each play, you have the subjective experience of deciding what to do: of choosing whether to play heads or tails....