A Seattle-based global health non-profit is working on a very early-stage malaria vaccine trial (pre-vaccine … they are investigating the body’s immune response under specific conditions, with the hope of[…]

I just came across this documentary on Hans Rosling from 2010 — I can’t believe I didn’t know about it!  For those with an obsessive and numbers-based interest in global[…]

America the free? Just a brief contemplation on the direction that institutional violence appears to be running nowadays. A high court has ruled it is illegal to dance at federal[…]

I feel like I’ve been writing a lot about food lately, and this post will be no exception. An op-ed in the NYT a few weeks ago raised the novel[…]

PBS Newshour has a short piece, totally worth watching, on the Sioux refusing $1.3bn in compensation.  Although the health issues on Pine Ridge are only briefly mentioned in the beginning[…]

Interesting video on the mining boom in Australia and the effects on indigenous peoples.  If you’re only going to watch a short portion, watch from 16:55 – 21:00.

Much has been said about the tragic events in Norway over the last days.  It goes without saying that every compassionate person feels pain for the families of the victims[…]

The Guardian has a really interesting article on John Lindh, the “American Taliban” captured in 2001.  I was previously aware that Lindh had been railroaded, but I wasn’t aware of[…]

The FDA recently revised its ‘food pyramid’ into an easier-to-understand plate graphic.  This is a good first step.  We could debate the veracity of this image, especially since “protein” isn’t[…]

There’s a really fascinating interactive gmaps-overlay for pedestrian deaths for 2000-2009 in the US, showing markers for each of the 47,700 pedestrian deaths (full PDF report here).  Each marker contains[…]