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This article appeared in Komaza Issue 7, Winter 2011. Jamaican beaches deserve their reputation for beauty, as Victoria Okuneye (Brain and Cognitive Science ’13) discovered this past August. Living in Negril on the western end of the island, Victoria took advantage of her beachfront location to swim as often as possible during her three-week stay. … Continue reading
This article appeared in Komaza Issue 6, Spring/Summer 2011. It is a cruel irony that groundwater wells, usually installed to offer an alternative water supply to contaminated surface sources, can sometimes bring illness. In many countries, arsenic is naturally present in groundwater in very high concentrations. People drinking that water over a long period of … Continue reading
This article appeared in Komaza Issue 6, Spring/Summer 2011. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT. She is also a co-founder and director of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2011. … Continue reading
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