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Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes
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Last month, David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, pressed a button on his laptop as his bus left the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan and started a debate that has people re-examining the country’s latest celebrated charity, Kiva.org.
Oprah Winfrey extolled Kiva on her TV show. Nicholas D. Kristof, a [...]
Brain-to-brain communication over the Internet
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Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) is a hot area of research. In the past year alone we’ve looked at a system to allow people to control a robotic arm and another that enables users to control an ASIMO robot with nothing but the power of thought. Such systems rely on the use of an electroencephalograph [...]
Hi-tech aims to improve lifestyle
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Facebook, mobile phones, and energy meters are helping to see if people can be nudged into living healthier lives.
The three-year project will see how people react when data is fed back to them about their energy use and activity levels.
While it has been established that such feedback can alter behaviour, the [...]
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