Offline: 2015—the year to rebuild WHO

How to Rebuild the World ?

The objective of these papers are to look back on a fervent discussion within Polish economic thought that continued until the end of the 18 century. Its main concern was to find the optimal way of transforming the economic system, against the background of the reforms of the feudal society and the anachronic state. That period was a favourable time for comprehensive analysis of the theories an...

Panda rebuild

The researchers used recordings of a sentinel's 'watchman's song' played back at different heights to observe the differences in behaviour. And indeed they found that the higher a song was transmitted, the more confident foragers were in extending the distance and duration of their activities. When sentinels moved to a higher position, their probability of detecting predators is likely to be gr...

Hurricane Katrina. One year after, New Orleans researchers struggle to rebuild.

China struggles to rebuild mental health programs.

a dozen workers leapt to their death in the same factory compound in southern China in 2010, while nearly 30 people died and 80 were injured in a spate of school stabbings. Yet, contrary to instinct, there is little evidence to confirm that there has been a rapid rise in the rate of mental illnesses in China, and strong evidence of a dramatic drop in suicide rates over the past two decades, say...

It's time to rebuild the evidence base.

contaminated,” says Brett Thombs, assistant professor at McGill University in Canada and one of the authors of the JAMA paper. Whether it is drugs, behavioural therapies, or patient support tools, “when anyone tests something they developed themselves,” says Thombs, “there is a great risk of bias.” He and colleagues recommend several reforms to the way reviews are reported, pushing more disclos...