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Published On July 23, 2007
TECHNOLOGY
Child's Play
A solution to a sub-Saharan public health crisis is also…a merry-go-round.
Child's play is the unlikely solution to a sub-Saharan public health crisis: the high incidence of disease transmitted by dirty water. With each rotation of a PlayPump’s colorful merry-go-round, children draw clean water from 330-foot-deep wells into 660-gallon storage tanks that feature space for advertisements and public health messages about such concerns as HIV/AIDS prevention and proper hand-washing. The ad revenues fund the maintenance of the $14,000 system.
Dispatches
Podcast: Polar Lessons Researchers are untangling how animals can live in the Arctic and Antarctic cold. The applications for human medicine could be vast.
Putting the Dead to Rest Students at the New York Academy of Art are using their sculptural and artistic training to reconstruct the faces of unidentified remains.
On Her Wavelength Indoor light can affect health in good ways and bad. Photobiologist Mariana Figueiro wants to get patients the optimal exposure.
Second Opinion Fall 2018 Experts reflect on the rise of fake medical news and better ways to treat depression.
First Thoughts Tiny models of the brain are becoming more complex. When should the ethicists step in?
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