Steven Levitt posts this morning on his Freakonomics blog (the online continuation of the NYTimes bestseller) about the latest contribution to the noise of obesity research and commentary:
J. Eric Oliver has a new book called Fat Politics. I had lunch with the author (he is a professor in the Political Science department at the University […]

silently chosen
my leaf falls head over tails.
p, zero or one?

clean water=good public health. pretty simple, right?
The implementation of this simple concept has perplexed health practitioners and engineers for centuries. According to the, 2002 WHO Global Burden of Disease Project unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene is still the world’s 6th largest cause of death.
If you add population growth, water scarcity and pollution […]

Thanks to TEDBlog, I picked up on the Human Security Report 2005, a report issued this last week on the “interrelated threats associated with civil war, genocide and the displacement of populations.” Before listing some of their rosy-sounding conclusions, let’s slice and dice this new term “human security”. My initial impression was that […]

This week, Transparency International released the Corruption Perceptions Index for 2005 and according to TI Chairman Peter Eigen (and also quite pronounced on the world map), “corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it…the two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. […]