Links of the BiMonthly… ish 2/03/08
1. Darwin’s Surprise.
Scientists bring back extinct retroviruses to see what they can learn about modern viruses such as HIV.
2. Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters
Andrew Sullivan’s piece on why we need to transcend Boomer-politics.
3. Field Trials Aim to Tackle Poverty
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is pioneering the concept of randomized trials, more commonly associated with drug safety tests, to assess what works and what doesn’t in development and poverty interventions.
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Epigenetics May Explain PTSD in Offspring of Holocaust Survivors?
The abstract of the paper itself states: “Though the majority of our work has focused on adult offspring of Holocaust survivors, recent observations in infants born to mothers who were pregnant on 9/11 demonstrate that low cortisol in relation to parental PTSD appears to be present early in the course of development and may be influenced by in utero factors such as glucocorticoid programming.”
5. Malawi: Ending Starvation By Ignoring the Experts
Yet more proof of how damaging the World Bank’s ideology is, and a role model for other developing countries looking to get out of the aid trap.
