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Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest leaders of modern times, passed away Thursday at his home in Johannesburg. He was 95.

With impact-evaluation results in hand, policymakers in poor countries will increasingly be able to rely on evidence wen deciding how to use their scarce resources

William Easterly in Africa's Turn?

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Knowledge about plants that can cure or kill has been prized, and feared, for centuries.

Flip through an enchanted botanical book and learn the history and mythology of many poisonous plant species.

I wonder … what does it take for a plant to be poisonous? As Paracelsus said:

All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

That a plant is medicinal, poisonous, or just plain delicious/nutritious is up to the mouth that mascerates it, so to speak.

Whether it’s the bitter compounds of coffee beans (which also contain the potent insect neurotoxin/human stimulant we call “caffeine”), or any number of bitter leafy greens (whose compounds are meant to discourage feeding bugs), where we find plants producing bitter we find plants begging “Please … please no, please go do something else, I’m gross and bad for you.”