Don’t Let it Bring you Down–Neil Young I came across an article on how a lot of the positives of public health randomized control trials don’t necessarily translate to economics on Dan Gardner’s twitter (see left). Hard to not read it with that kind of endorsement. I have to say, I don’t think I [...]
Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)–Jorge Ben As my thesis writing continues, my posts will be brief but there’s a still of interesting stuff going on and being written out there. That’s why I love it when people contribute like Jessica’s piece last week trying to reconcile science and beliefs of Canada’s indigenous peoples. The [...]
Swear–Inc Here in Canada we’re quite a ways from another federal election (although a few provincial are underway right now) but here’s an interesting study (via The Monkey Cage) that looked at a possible way to get people to vote more often: In each experiment, participants completed one of two versions of a brief survey. [...]
My family and I have loaned out over $400 on Kiva to people all over the world (with no deafults!) and it looks like we’re not alone. Here’s a video showing all Kiva loans across the world since Kiva’s inception (via: Curiosity Counts): Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva Microfunds on Vimeo.
by Jessica I’m loving the Carl Sagan book “The Varieties of the Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, starting at the back as Jeremy suggested. It’s interesting to read about his work in the context of the work I do with First Nations on environmental and wildlife management issues (and reading [...]
So In Love–Jill Scott ft. Anthony Hamilton Yes! Since the passing of Jack Layton, my mind has been on politics and political philosophy a lot and less on health and science. But I found something that allows me to tie the two together (kinda). When I talk to people about politics they all seem to [...]
