Everyone knows that the word ‘best’ is subjective. That said, here are a few best-of-Humanosphere story lists for 2014 we ran over the holiday break. The first, Most Popular, is based on web traffic over the past year. The others, Editors’ Picks and Newsroom Picks, are based on stories that may not have done as well in terms of traffic as our top guns (or any cat video) but which we think are worth another look.
Happy Newt Ear!
Top Ten (by traffic)
- How to make Ebola worse (op-ed by smallpox warrior Bill Foege)
- Visualizing Gun Deaths
- Why I’m not doing the Ice Bucket Challenge
- Beyond the Berlin patient: Seeking a cure for HIV-AIDS
- This 12-year-old Norwegian girl is getting married
- Watch the men who harvest cocoa try chocolate for the first time
- Africans to Geldof: We don’t need another Band Aid
- Newsweek’s racist and misinformed Ebola cover story
- Sachs-Easterly cease fire ends; war of words breaks out
- How the aid and development industry helped cause Ebola
Editors Picks
- Latin American women organizing to fight sexual violence
- Visualizing the surprisingly massive toll of suicide worldwide
- Eat insects to save the world
- A neglected cold war and humanitarian tragedy at our doorstep
- CIA promises not to do any more fake vaccination programs
- Most nations, other than US, making progress at reducing maternal & child deaths
- Gates Foundation won’t take stand on universal health coverage
- Study finds ‘free’ health care does improve outcomes
- The biggest global health program you’ve never heard of – NTDs
- Data love: The risk of humanitarians acting like scientists
Newsroom Picks
- A chat with ‘Ebola Nurse’ Kaci Hickox on how bad quarantine causes harm
- How Tanzania failed to fix its water problem
- United States wastes billions of dollars to ship food aid
- Is this the nail in the coffin for One Laptop Per Child?
- All this talk about uplifting girls is not helping them
- Obama on immigration: From humanitarian crisis to post-election afterthought
- In Sierra Leone, Ebola continues its spread via denial and ignorance
- Aid workers mixed reaction to critical report on emergency relief efforts
- Why the Electrify Africa Act is Vital to empowering Africa
- The Dark Heart of Global Health
