# 7303     I’m just starting to work my way though the articles (and there are a dozen of them), but the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal (EMHJ) – the Periodical of the World Health Organization  Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean – has published a supplemental issue dedicated to the emergence of the novel coronavirus.   Included are articles by such well known public health players as Keiji Fukuda, Anthony Mounts (see […]

Conflicting studies can make life tough. A good systematic review could sort it out. It might be possible for the studies to be pooled into a meta-analysis. That can show you the spread of individual study results and what they add up to, at the same time.But what about when systematic reviews disagree? When the "he said, she said" of conflicting studies goes meta, it can be even more confusing. New layers of disagreement get piled onto the layers from the original research. Yikes! This […]

Drawing from her personal experience as a primate educator and the challenges she saw others facing, Amy Clanin envisioned a network that would advance the field of primate conservation education by addressing three needs of educators: connections, resources, and services. It was this vision that led her to create the Primate Education Network (PEN). PEN is at the forefront of primate conservation education, providing a community and collaboration platform for primate educators.

John Cassidy in The New Yorker: When the Great Recession struck, U.S. policymakers did what mainstream textbooks recommend: they introduced monetary and fiscal-stimulus programs, which helped offset the retrenchments and job losses in the private sector. In Europe, austerity has...

This is a guest post by Adam Obeng, a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at Columbia University. His work encompasses computational social science, social network analysis and sociological theory (basically anything which constitutes an excuse to sit in front of a terminal for unadvisably long periods of time). This post is Copyright Adam Obeng 2013 and licensed under […]