Brad Wittwer
Brad Wittwer is currently an undergraduate student at Brown University studying economics and psychology. He has also studied at the University of California, San Diego and Dartmouth. A former intern for Miller-McCune, he also works for the AEDI group on their Village Corps project bringing sustainable development practices to villages in developing countries through a web-based platform. Brad has also worked in the green sector for Energy Independence Now and is an outdoor enthusiast.
Who Cares If It’s All Meaningless Anyway?
A startling proportion of the population, the existentially indifferent, demonstrates little concern for meaning in their lives.
A So-So HIV Vaccine May Be a Hard Sell
A collection of studies shows that any HIV vaccine, while highly sought by doctors to battle the epidemic, would only be requested by some.
Conversational Well-Being: Quality Over Quantity
Psychologists link happiness with less small talk and more substantive conversation.
Happiness Is on the Rise. Thanks, Freedom
Despite the belief that happiness has remained constant in modern societies, recent research says otherwise, citing rising democracy and increased basic freedoms as the cause.
If Only Yosemite Were a Video Game
Those who experience nature through the windshield typically donate less toward conservation than those with no exposure to nature.
Billion-Dollar Underdogs
New research shows that consumers identify with and choose brands they see as the underdog.
Apparently Not a Journalistic Terrorist After All
After initially being denied an American visa due to journalistic ties to rebel fighters, Colombian journalist Hollman Morris is allowed entry into the U.S. to study at Harvard.
Ten Hearty Orphan Crops
More about the different kinds of orphan crops that grow all over the world.
Microfinance: Back to the Drawing Board
Despite the hype surrounding microfinance as an answer to solving world poverty, new research shows it isn’t the savior economists envisioned.
I’m Happy as Long as I Make More Than You
New research acknowledges that money doesn’t buy happiness all on its own purchasing power, but rather happiness comes indirectly from the higher status money provides.
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World health leaders announce coordinated push to eradicate or control neglected tropical diseases.
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Traffic Solution: Make Drivers Less Lonely
Rather than moaning about too many cars on the road, the Ridesharing Institute says the real key to battling traffic congestion and pollution is filling empty passenger seats.
Numerology Doesn’t Know the Score
Various ways of assigning numbers to events, people, and actions is an ancient parlor game, but let’s not take it beyond that.
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Researchers looking at how we fixate on threats uncover more evidence of a biological component to the red-blue divide.
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