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Global Health
Addressing Hunger and Poverty
May 20, 2005 More than a billion people live in extreme poverty, plagued by diseases such as AIDS and malaria, and without enough fresh water to drink or food to eat. Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, tell Ira Flatow about meeting the needs of a growing population.Can science and technology play a role?
Making False Memories
February 4, 2005 New research looks at how the brain makes memories. Though there's no shortage of research on memory formation, this study has a twist — the researchers imaged the brains of the study subjects as they made memories of events that didn't actually happen.