here but yet to be corroborated. it’s unclear if the Iranians really have Garad. so far, only Africa Review is reporting it… “He was like Carlos the Jackal in the crime world,” Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Association told Africa Review [about Garad]. according to David F. Marley…the “secretive” Garad — it’s notContinue reading “pirates in the news! (also, kids, if you’re a famous pirate, you still maybe shouldn’t do drugs)”
Monthly Archives: April 2012
fun with questions (I)
from a letter home from ghana, in which i tried to explain the basics of how the research on which i was working actually…worked. plus, the response from one of my very favorite people on the planet. roughly, in the research project, we tried to convince people obtaining a malaria medication to subscribe into aContinue reading “fun with questions (I)”
wait, we’re experimenting, right?
many of the descriptions of the ideal next World Bank president – at least the ones with which I agree – have called for a little more humility about how much we actually know about economic & human development and poverty reduction. so it’s frustrating to see articles like this, which imply a low level ofContinue reading “wait, we’re experimenting, right?”