Some articles to remember:

• What Makes Good Aid *Good Aid*? – I like very much his take on “local”.
• New study shows humans are on auto pilot nearly half the time You were saying?
• Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain | Video on TED.com, perhaps we should bring these lessons to our work-floor, in order to motivate our staff.
• Dear Journalists: My Wish List – Desperate about how journalists seem to promote spectacular, expensive and useless humanitairan aid? Read this article.
• To save women’s lives in Africa, bring abortion out of the shadows | Global development | guardian.co.uk ; Every year, 5.5 million women in Africa risk their lives when they decide to terminate a pregnancy, due to poor health services. These are not risks any woman should be forced to take…
• The Price of Political Connections; Would the same kind of price be paid for political connections in development?
• Global price chaos – is another food crisis on the way? Will we side with the farmers or the hungry? Or support the hungry farmer?
• Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention – With all the attention going to disaster response, this will be a though sell.
• Take me home, country roads… wonderful piece.
• Multilateral resource allocation: best practice approaches – The ODI approach seems to discard field results and markets for multilateral  assistance as a resource allocation mechanism. It seems that simple measurably is paramount.
• Nation Waist-Deep In Soybeans After $30 Trillion Farm Subsidy Bill Accidentally Passed | The Onion ; The title says it all, doesn’t it?
• Mob-sourcing: the prejudice of crowds | ZDNet;  As more web content is crowd sourced and crowd moderated, are we seeing only the wisdom of crowds? No, we’re also seeing their prejudice.
• Cigarette smoking for weight loss. This is actually astonishing. How much do you risk for a few pounds less?