Educate Girls
The Shining Hope School in the Kibera slum in Nairobi provides girls with high quality, safe, healthy education. Dell Social Innovation Challenge grand prize winner 2010. http://bit.ly/ZFIFwu
The Shining Hope School in the Kibera slum in Nairobi provides girls with high quality, safe, healthy education. Dell Social Innovation Challenge grand prize winner 2010. http://bit.ly/ZFIFwu
"Sitting is the 'smoking' of our generation". http://bit.ly/ZPpJZ7
A new service combines cell phone banking and smart data analysis to allow direct, unconditional fund transfers to the world's poorest. http://www.givedirectly.org
Google is planning to launch hundreds - perhaps thousands - of high-altitude balloons to link the world to the internet. Wired http://bit.ly/164VvWy
Epidemiologists show that testing all adults for HIV in India would overall save money. Economist http://econ.st/11CuhmQ
"Alternative Voting", such as employed in Australia, allows voters to designate their first and second choices. If the first choice loses, your second choice gets the vote. This favors third party candidates and competition. Thomas Friedman NY Times http://nyti.ms/aLX6de
Requiring 60 votes to do anything is a recipe for partisanship and paralysis. http://bit.ly/8rARoJ
The Gates Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and other foundations have announced plans to spend-down their endowments to zero. This greatly increases annual spending and gives the programs a sense of timing and urgency.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu argues that we should expend less efforts on international treaties and more effort on bilateral discussions with China. The US and China combined create 40% of the world's pollution. An innovative, aggressive, bilateral treaty will represent great progress, and encourage other nations to join. Wired Magazine profile http://bit.ly/bttpI8
The heart-wrenching, Pulitzer Prize-winning article about parents who mistakenly leave a baby in a locked car to die (about 20 times per year in the US). Washington Post http://bit.ly/9w41Ir
Women are better at forging compromise than men. Why not have women lead Middle East peace negotiations? Christian Science Monitor http://bit.ly/cOaiog
The role of government should be rooted in a shared framework that there is in fact a proper role of government. Nice, simple summary by Paul Krugman NYTimes http://nyti.ms/U7G24