This clock shows the time since the World Bank promised an investigation on Thursday, September 22 into the charges that they financed a project in Uganda in which poor people had their homes, cattle, and crops destroyed as the project forced them off their own land.

http://twitter.com/#!/WorldBank/status/116939808877707264

Skeptics are the essential life-blood of the answer-finding system, and the terrible movie review system.

What should we do to end world poverty? Not only do we not know, says Bill Easterly, but that’s also the entirely wrong question to ask. Professor Easterly discusses answer-finding systems, professional skepticism and M. Night Shymalan’s alternate career as an aid worker in a panel discussion at the Columbia Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute.

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