[Across the ~45 countries I have traveled across, I have never come across anyone who has paid real hard cash for a solar food cooker. Never seen shops in developing countries carry them either. Yet, I see many Westerners obsessed with designing solar food cookers for Africa.]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Frame Changers #44: Smart(er)phones for Africa
Frame Changers #43: Water, Bottled
Frame Changers #42: Truth Serum for Research?
Frame Changers #41: Gender Bender
Frame Changers #40: Food for Thought
Frame Changers #39: Pet Photographers for Africa
Frame Changers #38: Aid, Trade & the African Serenade
Frame Changers #37: Research Fatigue
Frame Changers #36: Placebo or Nocebo
[Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) in which one group gets an experimental drug and others a placebo are common. Although amends to the the Helsinki Declaration have minimized ethical breaches, illnesses like Ebola that don’t have a cure, bring up a host of medical ethics issues. (In Latin, Placebo = I Shall Please and Nocebo = I Shall Harm)]