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Tanzania's Government of Development. Pink pill development.

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Posted on August 24, 2015

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  • The Washington Post writes about Government of Development: Peasants and Politicians in Postcolonial Tanzania, a new book by Leander Schneider, associate professor in the Department of Political Science. The book was part of the Washington Post's African politics summer reading list.
  • MIT Technology Review reports that Jim Pfaus, professor in the Department of Psychology and researcher in the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN) participated in a study of the side effects of Melanotan, a sunless tanning agent that was found to increase women's sexual desire. The discovery helped in the development by Sprout Pharmaceuticals of the libido-enhancing drug for women that has been dubbed the "pink pill".