Hmm. Are certain disparities, such as cancer burden, related to others, such as income? From the WP.

Alert readers of FISpace will have noticed that a post I did last week about some blogger supposedly raising money for breast cancer with a “boobie-thon” (women send in pictures of their, ah, anatomy, men send in pics of pecs, and others send in money) is gone. The thing is, I had a discussion with someone at the home office ...

HBS Working Knowledge: Social Enterprise: The Nonprofit Boon from Boomers Here’s a pretty optimistic prediction about the windfall in volunteer labor nonprofits may get. As 77 million baby boomers are moving ever closer to retirement, they have the potential to provide a tremendous source of paid and non-paid labor for many nonprofits—if you know how to reach them—concludes a recent ...

Here’s a slap on the side of the head! Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. From the invisible strands of fungi waiting to sprout between our toes, to the kilogram of bacterial matter in our guts, we are best viewed as walking “superorganisms,” highly complex conglomerations of ...