Collaborate Disseminate
Zipline has been using its drones for months to deliver lifesaving blood to Rwandan villages. Now it’s coming to the US. Continue reading The World’s Fastest Commercial Drone Will Drop Blood on the US This Year
If you’ve been reading the news lately, you doubtless read about the find of a really big new helium gas field in Tanzania. It’s being touted as “life-saving” and “game-changing” in the popular media, but this is all spin. Helium is important for balloon animals, scientists, and MRI machines alike, but while it’s certainly true that helium prices have been rising steadily since 2000, this new field is unlikely to matter all that much in the grand scheme of things.
The foundation of every news story on helium is that we’re running out of the stuff. As with most doomsday …read more
Continue reading The Dubious Claim of a World Helium Shortage
Anti-malaria efforts have help curb the threat, but non-communicable diseases are on the rise. Continue reading Tanzania’s Next Epidemic? Obesity
Though not widespread yet, this developing resistance threatens to render each of our most effective malaria-stopping technologies useless. Continue reading Mosquitoes Have Developed Resistance to Every One of Our Malaria-Fighting Tools
The numbers measuring this scourge can be overwhelming and difficult to comprehend. Continue reading The True Cost of Malaria