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The Problem With the Millenium Development Goals
Posted by Sharon Astyk on September 21, 2010
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_The Pump Handle_ often addresses the same issues that I do, from a public health perspective and is one of my favorite reads. As the UN Convenes to evaluate progress on the Millenium Development Goals – designed to reduce poverty worldwide, Liz Borkowski has done an admirable job of describing exactly what these are and…
The Weirdness of our Worldview
Posted by Sharon Astyk on September 6, 2010 There’s an interesting article in the National Post emergent from a recent study in _Brain and Behavioral Sciences_ The article, titled “The weirdest people in the world?”, appears in the current issue of the journal Brain and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Henrich and co-authors Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan argue that life-long members of societies that…