When you think you see a face in the clouds or in the moon, you may wonder why it never seems to be upside down. It turns out the answer to this seemingly minor detail is that your brain has been wired not to. Using tests of visual perception and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...
and credit cards? on money demnad. For simplicity,let us examine a person's demand for money over a period of six days.
suppose taht before ATM and credit card,this person goes to the bank once at the beginning of each six day period and withdraw from his saving account all the money he needs...
"Dilma Rousseff had barely been confirmed as Brazil's new president in November when she made her first foreign visit, to Mozambique," which "included a symbolic stop-off at a pharmaceutical factory that is under construction in preparation for opening in 2014. ... The plant will produce a range...
A report (.pdf), released Wednesday, on breastfeeding practices in 33 countries found that out of 78 million infants born each year, about 42 million do not receive an optimal amount of breastfeeding, IANS/Sify News reports (12/22). For the report, national groups in 33 countries conducted...
The Washington Post examines development experts' "mixed reactions" to the recent roll out of the State Department's draft Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), which would give USAID "a bigger role in running President [Barack] Obama's two main foreign aid initiatives - health...
By the end of this year, an additional 64 million people will fall into extreme poverty as a result of the global economic downturn that started in 2008, the World Bank said in a study on "member banks' response" to the situation, Reuters reports. The bank defines extreme poverty as living on...
"Switzerland's innovative policy of providing drug addicts with free methadone and clean needles has greatly reduced deaths while cutting crime rates and should serve as a global model, health experts said on Monday," Reuters reports in an article that examines the outcomes of drug policy reform...
Inter Press Service examines how some African countries are benefiting from the global agriculture fund the G8 pledged $22 billion to in July 2009. According to the article, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which seeks to increase African spending on...
Reuters reports on how some health experts worry that growing complacency about the threat of measles in Africa is contributing to "some of [the continent's] largest and most deadly outbreaks in years." Worldwide, "[a]bout 164,000 people died from measles in 2008, down 78 percent from 733,000 in...
Women's eNews looks at how women farmers are receiving more international recognition for their role in agriculture. Rapid increases in food prices about three years ago forced international aid groups to "look for cheaper, more flexible sources. In a policy shift that was also aimed at...
A Lancet World Report article examines how many are looking to the new U.N. agency tasked with advancing women's equality and rights to help improve the health of women in developing countries. According to the journal, U.N. Women, which "merges several organizations previously charged with...
MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" recently examined the increasingly "extreme" antiabortion-rights positions of Republican Senate candidates, a topic Maddow calls a "sleeper issue" in this year's campaigns. According to Maddow, Nevada candidate Sharron Angle, Kentucky candidate Rand Paul and...
"Few people have ever heard of" the Adoption Access Network, but "it's the rare phenomenon ... that feminists on both sides of the abortion debate ... can get behind," New York Times columnist Susan Dominus writes. Longtime abortion-rights advocates Corinna Lohser and Cristina Page co-founded...
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that the "stubbornness" of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) -- a possible contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination -- is on display in his "continued insistence on the idea of a truce" on "divisive, culture war controversies" like...
"The first test of a long-acting vaginal ring loaded with an HIV-preventing drug has begun enrolling women in southern Africa," the Washington Post reports. The study, according to the newspaper, marks the 15th trial led by the nonprofit group, International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM)...
Reuters examines the challenges facing the World Bank as it tries to secure aid for the developing world while some of the wealthiest nations are "feeling pinched themselves." "In 2007, the World Bank collected $42 billion for the International Development Association, or IDA, the world's...
Reflecting on USAID's plans to reduce reliance on food aid to fight global hunger by investing in agricultural development through microloans, the Financial Times examines the needs of smallholder farmers throughout the world. The piece looks at the role that lenders and large suppliers can play...
There is a "modern fable" that it is usually the female partner "who conspires to get pregnant, perhaps by 'forgetting' to take her birth control pills, as a way to 'trap a man,'" but two recently released studies demonstrate the "striking frequency with which it is in fact young men who try to...
KPBS reports on researchers' efforts to develop novel methods to protect women from HIV infection that have been examined at the International Microbicides Conference (M2010) in Pittsburgh this week. In sub-Saharan Africa, one of the region's hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, "six out of ten adults...
The East African examines the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program, a 10-year research collaboration between the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) that aims to help rural communities address...