the most difficult problem

The most difficult problem facing the world today is sharing Earth's dwindling resources.. There are several ways to look at this problem.. Imagine we're rats in a cage with limited food supply. There are a few distinct ways we can organize to allocate that limited food...

City set for tartan invasion

"MORE than 60,000 Scottish football fans will invade Manchester for the Uefa Cup final in two weeks - despite thousands of them having no tickets. Glasgow Rangers admitted that although they only have an allocation of 13,000 tickets for the showpiece final at...

Infrastructure: How Would You Spend $1.6 Trillion?

"“China spends 9 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on infrastructure and India budgets 3.5 percent … while aiming to increase its allocation to 8 percent. By comparison, the United States budgets $112.9 billion or just 0.93 percent of its GDP, and sidesteps the...

Dutch May Compensate Kidney Donors

"Dutch May Compensate Kidney Donors "The Dutch health minister, Ab Klink, is considering a recommendation to offer free health insurance for life to anyone who donates a kidney for transplant," reports The London Times. "The initiative has been prompted by a chronic shortage...

ICANN awarded net adminstration until 2011

"The US government has awarded net overseeing organisation ICANN the contract to administer changes at the top of the internet until 2011. The contract covers what is commonly referred to as the IANA function, a traditional bundle of technical operations that includes the...