No change without cookies

If you’ve ever wondered why it’s hard to initiate social change (or any kind of change, for that matter), perhaps this psychological study at The Fast Company may interest you. Say two groups of participants are given an impossible task to solve. Beforehand, one group is allowed to eat from a bowl of delicious cookies. [...]
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Girl-Power

The penultimate photo-blog post. This one packs a punch. With the motto “Train hard, fight easy,” the Boxgirls are in your face. Which doesn’t sound nice, until you know that it’s a strategic sport that improves physical performance, flexibitily, courage, tactical abilities, mental strength and technical know-how among women. At Boxgirls International, girls from different [...]
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Congratulations to our TOP 11 FLIP winners!

The betterplace lab team faced a big challenge last week. Our FLIP video contest with Cisco received an enormous response and we were forced with the wonderful problem of deciding which of the many wonderful ideas to support for a film project over the next 3 months. From the entire group of applications, we ended [...]
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