December 2010
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A Foreigner's Guide to American Culture →
nightline:
Americans could make their public spaces a little quieter, for example, if they all took one step closer to the person they are talking to.
And they could speed up their journeys to work by not insisting on holding every elevator for everyone who wants to catch it as though it was one of the last helicopters leaving the roof of the Saigon embassy in 1975. There will be another...
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Heard anything good this week?
A great radio segment? A song? What are you listening to? Let us know!
Heard anything good this week?
A great radio segment? A song? What are you listening to? Let us know!
Africa's Social Media Revolution →
theafricatheynevershowyou:
By André-Michel Essoungou
From Accra and Abidjan to Lusaka and Nairobi, African programmers are designing and launching new home-grown platforms and tools that will keep the African online conversation going and growing in the years ahead.
It’s here. And the best is yet to come.
Africa's Social Media Revolution →
theafricatheynevershowyou:
By André-Michel Essoungou
From Accra and Abidjan to Lusaka and Nairobi, African programmers are designing and launching new home-grown platforms and tools that will keep the African online conversation going and growing in the years ahead.
It’s here. And the best is yet to come.
“Jim Lehrer’s MacNeil / Lehrer Editorial Guidelines.
They are as follows:
Do...”
– Jim Lehrer (via newshour) (via nprfreshair)
Public media FTW!
“Jim Lehrer’s MacNeil / Lehrer Editorial Guidelines.
They are as follows:
Do...”
– Jim Lehrer (via newshour) (via nprfreshair)
Public media FTW!
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Here’s a preview of the rationing health...
Reporter’s notebook: inside a Chinese coal mine
by Mary Kay Magistad
Going down a coal mine may not be at the top of your list of fun touristy things to do, but for anyone planning a trip to China, who can handle at least a day in one of China’s sootier cities, in exchange for an insight into how it feels down there in the dark, you could do a lot worse than the tour offered by the Jin Hua Gong coal mine, part of the Datong Coal Mine...
New Rapid TB Test Endorsed by WHO →
pocketglobalhealth:
Tuberculosis is a difficult disease to diagnose, relying on subjective analysis of stains or a prolonged wait for a culture & sensitivity. Even a series of negative results does not completely rule out the disease.
A new rapid diagnostic method, based on DNA analysis, has recently been endorsed as a global health tool to fight the disease. Increased accurate diagnosis...
Updates and Announcements
Posting’s been a bit light lately. We’ve been hard at work on a new project on global health care rationing from PRI’s The World, including reports by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink. We’re launching that tomorrow, and we’re very excited about it. Check back for updates!
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Filibernie.com →
edkohler:
“Because somewhere on the internet this deserves to be looping forever…”
Understanding India’s Microcredit Crisis →
abbyjean:
As Vivek Nemana reported here, the Indian microcredit industry has pitched into what appears to be a replay of the American subprime debacle. I just spent a week in India, talking to nearly everyone. I learned there were so many complexities—history, politics, institutional rivalries— that to just view events through the foreign lens of the subprime crisis is…actually about right.
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