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Development" rel="category">Human Rights & Development</a></span> : <br/> Written by <a href="/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/index.php?author=18">Katryn Bowe</a> <span class="commr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=846#respond" title="Comment on Revamping Development">no comments »</a></span> </p> </div> <div class="entry"><p>President Obama has just taken decisive action to modernize the United States’ uncoordinated and at outdated approach to global development by signing a Presidential Study Directive on Global Development Policy. The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/31/in_new_directive_obama_signs_off_on_development_review" target="_blank">directive</a> calls for a comprehensive and interagency review of U.S. engagement in international development to be completed by January, 2010. National Security Advisory General James Jones, and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers have been tasked to lead the review. They will certainly have their hands full – 12 departments, over 55 offices, and over 20 agencies currently play a role in U.S. international development programs. The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.modernizingforeignassistance.org/blog/2009/08/31/mfan-new-presidential-study-directive-on-global-development-an-unprecedented-step-forward-on-development/" target="_blank">Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network</a> praised the directive:<br/> “we are closer than we have ever been to a fresh, whole-of-government approach that will elevate development as a core, independent pillar of U.S. foreign policy and make U.S. efforts to alleviate poverty and hunger, fight diseases, and create economic opportunity in the developing world ore efficient and effective.”</p> </div> <div class="tagbox"> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="post" id="post-844"> <div class="post-header"> <h3 class="timr">August 26th, 2009</h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=844" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Does Pop Culture Rot Your Brain?">Does Pop Culture Rot Your Brain?</a></h2> <p class="postmetadata">  Category <span class="catr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=38" title="View all posts in Technology" rel="category">Technology</a></span> : <br/> Written by <a href="/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/index.php?author=9">Chris Hall</a> <span class="commr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=844#respond" title="Comment on Does Pop Culture Rot Your Brain?">no comments »</a></span> </p> </div> <div class="entry"><p>One of the more encouraging outcomes of the debate surrounding health care reform in this country is the increased attention paid to preventative care. Americans, personally or through their tax dollars, are burdened by the high costs associated with treating life-threatening conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, even when many or all of these ailments are preventable - or at a minimum their effects able to be mitigated - with more robust and thoughtful primary care. It is against this backdrop that we receive news today from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio where researches believe they have developed an effective <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1918352,00.html?xid=rss-topstories">screening test</a> for Alzheimer’s disease. Neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are some of the most devastating and debilitating illnesses on the planet but also some of the least understood. Many tests already exist that determine whether a patient is currently suffering from Alzheimer’s, but only a few are capable of telling a patient he or she is predisposed to or in the earliest stages of the illness. In fact, the only reliable screening test to date looks for a certain allele of the ApoE4 gene associated with Alzheimer’s disease, but even then it is only effective in showing a genetic predisposition to the disease, not whether a patient has already started to suffer from dementia.</p> <p>The new test is offering some hope for prevention and early treatment. One would think, given the complexity of the human brain and the elusiveness of Alzheimer’s physiopathology (scientists to this day don’t understand how the disease works), any kind of screening or treatment would be equally complex. However, this particular test is surprisingly simple. In their clinical trials, the researchers separated a group of 69 men and women between the ages of 65 and 85 into 3 different groups: those without any risk factors for Alzheimers (besides age), those with a family history of the disease, and those with a family history <em>and</em> genes that predispose them to the disease. Researches then ran each of the subjects through an fMRI machine - a machine that measures blood flow, and thus activity, in the brain - and flashed the names of well known and little known individuals and gauged their neural responses. Scientists found that the subjects in the third group, those at the highest risk of developing the disease, showed greater brain activity in response to names of widely known celebrities while those least at risk showed greater brain activity in response to more obscure individuals. The scientists concluded that the higher risk patients racked their brains harder to recall popular celebrities because they already suffer from dementia, and since there is no visible evidence of atrophy or any physical signs of Alzheimer’s, theirs is an effective screening test for the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s.</p> <p>It is too early to say if the researchers are right or wrong in reaching this conclusion. Only time will tell whether these individuals develop Alzheimer’s and even then the results may be skewed if the at risk patients decide to seek preventative treatment. However, on the surface, the results of the study are not very convincing. How well do we really understand “brain activity?” Who is to say that the increased brain activity noted in the at risk group of volunteers is not actually due to a subject’s familiarity with a particular celebrity rather than his or her difficulty in recalling that person’s name? Britney Spears, Johnny Carson, and Marilyn Monroe are all fixtures of popular culture that in their respective times plastered the covers of magazines, the pages of newspapers, and, for Britney at least, the posts on gossip blogs. Britney Spears went from pop sensation to common criminal and back again in only a few years and I imagine when her name is referenced people conjur the whole spectrum of different identities she has assumed (not to mention her different hairdos). When you mention the name Irma Jacoby or Virginia Warfield, on the other hand, you’d probably meet a blank stare or a shrug of the shoulders. People may struggle more to remember these women - did I learn about her in my U.S. history class? - and I’m sure this rifling through our mental file folders would register as increased activity on an MRI scan, but how can scientists distinguish difficulty with recall from overwhelming recall, as would be the case with a popular celebrity, based on a few colorful amorphous blobs? Is it really fair to say that increased brain activity in response to a familiar stimulus is attributable to dementia? I’m skeptical.</p> <p>Regardless, even with this potential screening test, scientists are reining in any excitement. When asked how the results of the study could help fight Alzheimers, the leader of the research team, Dr. Rao, stated that the primary benefit would be to get at risk patients into clinical trials for drug therapies. He added, “If we can delay the disease by 10 years, we could almost eliminate it because people would die from other conditions first.”</p> </div> <div class="tagbox"> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="post" id="post-843"> <div class="post-header"> <h3 class="timr">August 24th, 2009</h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=843" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Water Blogged">Water Blogged</a></h2> <p class="postmetadata">  Category <span class="catr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=19" title="View all posts in Resource Management" rel="category">Resource Management</a></span> : <br/> Written by <a href="/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/index.php?author=18">Katryn Bowe</a> <span class="commr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=843#respond" title="Comment on Water Blogged">no comments »</a></span> </p> </div> <div class="entry"><p>A landmark new survey has just revealed that people around the world view fresh water issues as the most severe environmental problem: more pressing than climate change, failed food crops, and air pollution. The study was commissioned by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.molsoncoors.com/images/pdfs/MCBC%20COB%20World%20Water%20Week_Press%20Release_81709_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">Molson Coors</a> and the non-profit Circle of Blue. It polled 15,000 people across 15 countries, making it the first comprehensive survey of public attitudes across the world on fresh <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://demotest.qlikview.com/QvAJAXZfc/AccessPoint.aspx?open=&id=demotest.qlikview.com|CircleofBlue.qvw&client=Ajax" target="_blank">water</a>.</p> <p>Key results include:</p> <ul> <li>60% of Indians are very concerned about the high cost of water</li> <li>94% of Mexicans are very or somewhat concerned about the lack of water for agriculture</li> <li>Worldwide, 93 percent say water pollution is a very serious (72 percent) or somewhat serious (21 percent) problem. The response is nearly identical on the issue of water shortages.</li> <li>A full 88% of Americans strongly or somewhat worry that many parts of the world will increasingly suffer from shortages of fresh water.</li> </ul> <p>What do these findings imply for our global water future? Most obviously, they unequivocally show that the world’s fresh water is in nothing short of a crisis.</p> <p>But the bad news is also good news. That most people understand that it is a crisis is a not a minor consolation. The gap between public consciousness and the reality of the water situation could have been much more drastic. While not enough on its own, admitting that we have a problem is the first step to recovery.</p> </div> <div class="tagbox"> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="post" id="post-842"> <div class="post-header"> <h3 class="timr">August 18th, 2009</h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=842" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to There Is One Place America Agrees on Spending More on Healthcare: For Vets">There Is One Place America Agrees on Spending More on Healthcare: For Vets</a></h2> <p class="postmetadata">  Category <span class="catr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=20" title="View all posts in Defense & Security" rel="category">Defense & Security</a></span> : <br/> Written by <a href="/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/index.php?author=17">Samuel Ball-Brau</a> <span class="commr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=842#respond" title="Comment on There Is One Place America Agrees on Spending More on Healthcare: For Vets">no comments »</a></span> </p> </div> <div class="entry"><p>Amidst the chaos and confusion over the national health care debate, there is a bipartisan commitment to increasing benefits to veterans. Today in front of the VFW national convention in Phoenix, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/08/18/20090818obama-main0818.html" target="_blank">President Obama drew the loudest applause</a> when he called for expanding veteran’s health benefits. Many of the President’s concerns were indicative of the modern complications of veteran’s health care as he paid special attention to mental health.</p> <p>This comes as the American military is finally facing the massive toll that mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, take on our veterans. As a recent <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/health/18psych.html" target="_blank">New York Times article explains</a>,</p> <blockquote><p>The Army plans to require that all 1.1 million of its soldiers take intensive training in emotional resiliency, military officials say.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>The training, the first of its kind in the military, is meant to improve performance in combat and head off the mental health problems, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide, that plague about one-fifth of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.</p></blockquote> <p>There is no consensus about what techniques work the best, and it is clear that each treatment has to treat the patient individually; but this is a real breakthrough in investing in the type of preventative health care that we have been hearing about for so long. As they say, ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’, and hopefully this program, and others like it, will prove to be a public investment in our nation’s long term health. As we deal with issues such as health care, we have to constantly remind ourselves that we cannot let ourselves be wrapped up in rhetoric and polemic sound-bites. We have to think in the margins, and keep a 50,000 foot view of the impact our decisions now will have in the long run.</p> <p>In the end, we have to think outside the box. For example, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702114.html?hpid=sec-tech" target="_blank">video games</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.daily-times.com/ci_13142216" target="_blank">donkeys</a> have helped our soldiers deal with the stress that regular citizens cannot possibly comprehend; all we can do is communicate clearly, learn, and work together to make intelligent policy.</p> </div> <div class="tagbox"> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="post" id="post-841"> <div class="post-header"> <h3 class="timr">August 17th, 2009</h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=841" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Twitter Wars">Twitter Wars</a></h2> <p class="postmetadata">  Category <span class="catr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=39" title="View all posts in Information Flows" rel="category">Information Flows</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=38" title="View all posts in Technology" rel="category">Technology</a></span> : <br/> Written by <a href="/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/index.php?author=17">Samuel Ball-Brau</a> <span class="commr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=841#respond" title="Comment on Twitter Wars">no comments »</a></span> </p> </div> <div class="entry"><p>Imagine: it’s right before the 21st amendment is ratified in 1933, so prohibition is still the law of the land. We’re in New Hartford, Iowa and a newborn Chuck Grassley is a few thousand cornfields away from a three year old Arlen Specter who is in Kansas. Fast forward to 2009 and these two seventy-somethings had a public altercation: on Twitter.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/" target="_blank">Politico</a> had the scoop, and they noted that not only was Senator Specter angry with Senator Grassley, he used Twitter to express his frustrations. As Senator Specter <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://twitter.com/SenArlenSpecter" target="_blank">tweeted</a>, “Called Senator Grassley to tell him to stop spreading myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.’” Senator Grassley <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley" target="_blank">responded</a>, “Specter got it all wrong that I ever used words ‘death boards.’ Even liberal press never accused me of that. So change ur last Tweet Arlen.” If you can get over the fact that Senator Grassley wrote, “ur”, it is clear that we have entered a new era of political discourse. If two men who were born before the fireside chats can debate on Twitter, what medium will our generation use to yell at each other when we are in our seventies?</p> <p>It is clear that Twitter is changing how we argue, debate, and learn from one another. In Iran, it was a positive tool for rallying political dissidents behind reformist movements, however, here we see the dark side of Twitter as well. Instead of a substantive debate on the merits of health care reform, we just have vitriol and “he said, she said” back and forth that gets us nowhere. There is a balance to be found, and I don’t think we’re there yet.</p> </div> <div class="tagbox"> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="post" id="post-840"> <div class="post-header"> <h3 class="timr">August 14th, 2009</h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=840" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google Revives Legacy of Danish Physicist">Google Revives Legacy of Danish Physicist</a></h2> <p class="postmetadata">  Category <span class="catr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=38" title="View all posts in Technology" rel="category">Technology</a></span> : <br/> Written by <a href="/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/index.php?author=9">Chris Hall</a> <span class="commr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=840#respond" title="Comment on Google Revives Legacy of Danish Physicist">no comments »</a></span> </p> </div> <div class="entry"><p>You may have noticed Google’s newest <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://img0.gmodules.com/logos/orsted09ig.gif">logo of the day</a> when you signed on to your computer this morning. The doodle seems to be little more than a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/14/hans-christian-orsted-google">rudimentary contraption</a> not unlike the one you made during your lesson on electricity back in elementary school - all I see is a copper wire, a battery, a nail, and a compass - and, apparently, that’s exactly what it is, but it also forms the foundation of the study of electromagnetism, without which many of our modern day electronic devices would never have been invented. The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/oersted/index.html">system</a> was first conceived by Hans Christian Ørsted, a Danish physicist, after he noticed that an electric current running through a wire could move the needle of a nearby compass. In his day, the early 19th century, Ørsted received many awards and distinctions for his discovery, but nowadays he is relatively unknown by the greater public and even in the scientific community the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oersted">unit of measure</a> that bears his name is rarely used. With the help of Google, though, this may all change. Be sure to thank Mr. Ørsted today, we owe him a lot.</p> </div> <div class="tagbox"> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="post" id="post-839"> <div class="post-header"> <h3 class="timr">August 12th, 2009</h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=839" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Look to GE to quench your thirst?">Look to GE to quench your thirst?</a></h2> <p class="postmetadata">  Category <span class="catr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=19" title="View all posts in Resource Management" rel="category">Resource Management</a></span> : <br/> Written by <a href="/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/index.php?author=16">Molly Walton</a> <span class="commr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=839#respond" title="Comment on Look to GE to quench your thirst?">no comments »</a></span> </p> </div> <div class="entry"><p>GE is looking to ride the wave of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idAFN2235851820090811?rpc=44" target="_blank">water purification</a>, increasing its investment in the business of large-scale purification in addition to its investments in waste-water reclamation. Over the last decade GE has increased its stake in water, though until recently the company has focused mostly on issues of quality rather than scarcity. GE is not alone. Many other multinational companies, such as Siemens AG and Dow Chemical Co, are donning their arm-floaties and jumping in the water (business).</p> <p>Heiner Markhoff, the president and chief executive of GE Water & Process Technologies had this to say about the venture, “What GE tries to do is to align the company with some of the mega-trends, the mega-challenges of the world. Energy is one, healthcare is the other, and the third one is water.”</p> </div> <div class="tagbox"> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="post" id="post-838"> <div class="post-header"> <h3 class="timr">August 11th, 2009</h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=838" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 40,000 Volts">40,000 Volts</a></h2> <p class="postmetadata">  Category <span class="catr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=13" title="View all posts in Governance" rel="category">Governance</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?cat=38" title="View all posts in Technology" rel="category">Technology</a></span> : <br/> Written by <a href="/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/index.php?author=17">Samuel Ball-Brau</a> <span class="commr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://forums.csis.org/gsionline/?p=838#respond" title="Comment on 40,000 Volts">no comments »</a></span> </p> </div> <div class="entry"><p> The Volt has enough volts to go 40 miles, if you are willing to pony up the $40,000 cost for a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.chevrolet.com/pages/open/default/fuel/electric.do" target="_blank">Volt</a>. Although, because the Volt’s use of a single volt is so efficient, the government (which is composed of, us, and who owns a large stake of Chevy) is willing to subsidize your purchase, so it will likely only cost about $32,500. Are we all confused enough yet?</p> <p>The good news from the company we all own (General Motors) is that the new plug-in flex-fuel car will get <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/11/AR2009081101090.html?hpid=topnews" target="_blank">230 miles per gallon</a>. This makes it fuel efficient enough to warrant the aforementioned subsidy. The whole ordeal seems largely circular: our stake in GM is so large, that why even go through bureaucratic inefficiencies that I am sure will accompany any sort of tax break, and just price the car we are marketing to ourselves at a lower price? Hopefully, the investment in our future will have a high return as we mitigate the negative externalities associated with modern vehicles, but I am worried that we are just trading one problem for another.</p> <p>One driving force for the environmental movement is that the nation’s reliance on foreign sources of oil compromises our energy security. Yet, at a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council yesterday, members of the GSI team saw Sharon Burke present a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.cnas.org/node/2712" target="_blank">working paper</a> she is developing for CNAS. In it she highlights the new “natural security” issues we are facing, including the issues associated with the particular case of importing lithium. Familiar because it currently powers our laptops, new electric cars need so much lithium that demand is expected to triple, and given that about half of the lithium in the world is in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101250/http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/JustOneThing/story?id=8257028&page=1" target="_blank">Bolivian salt flats</a>, it seems that we are just trading one vulnerability for another.</p> <p>Taking a step back from geopolitical ramifications though — what will the real impact of the Volt prove to be? In this era, what percentage of the market can afford to sink that much money into a car, even if there is a long term savings? The reality is that we are already losing the economic battle to be producers of lithium-ion batteries. Forget investing in second place, and instead, invest in the next generation of more efficient batteries. 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