Global Health Check

On the topic of world health, check out this interactive tool created by Beyond Words Studio for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Mosaic. 

Enter your year of birth (or any year in the past) and see the progress that has been made in terms of health outcomes and health inputs.

Microloans

Here is a cool story about microloans at NPR.org

It looks like the benefits of microloans have been overstated through the years, but the news is not all bad.