Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action.

• On Nepal earthquake relief (disclaimer: we don’t do any work in Nepal, and haven’t vetted any of this):
  • As Chris mentioned, GiveWell’s blog has some disaster giving tips (summary: give cash, to somewhere transparent with an established network in the country, don’t forget about the long term, and harness your giving urge by also donating to others in everyday danger not in headlines).
  • Lists of groups working in Nepal from USAID and the New York Times
  • Paypal is also waiving processing fees for donating to Nepal earthquake relief here.

• The New York Times Magazine has a feature on a new app inspired by research on psychology and economics of the poor showing the difficulty of mental accounting, particularly under the stress the poor often experience. It allows people to “smooth” their own income, turning irregular “lumpy” income into regular income, more like a paycheck (h/t Shardul O.)
• Stanford Social Innovation Review article “School for Scaling” talks about lessons from how deworming went from research findings to a multi-country effort deworming millions of kids.
• Research to Action has some really good toolkits for communicating to policy audiences, covering how to write a good policy brief, how to communicate with the media, and online tools, among others (h/t Lindsey S.)
• Yale Economist & IPA founder Dean Karlan is finishing up a book on his field research failures, and looking for a title, feel free to tweet him @DeanKarlan or leave suggestions in the comments.

And your bonus, Ryan Briggs tried to create a Drunk World Bank twitter feed which randomly combines phrases from different World Bank reports. His intention was to make it sound drunk, but turns out, randomly combined phrases sound a lot like regular World Bank reports.