Technology Will Solve Our Problems…Not!

Will health rights solve Malawi's health problems?

We are living in a world where the mode of thinking is being increasingly influenced by Western ideology. The discourse about personal rights is one of the consequences of Western philosophy. Malawi, a south-eastern African country, has produced a Charter of Patients and Health Workers’ Rights and Responsibilities. Implementation of this document is expected to contribute to improving the deliv...

How will robots integrate into our world?

New coworker: The workplace robot Baxter from Rethink Robotics, on display here at the Science Museum London, can learn to carry out a wide variety of tasks and is safe for use next to human colleagues. (Photo: Michael Gross.) The Science Museum in London, UK, currently hosts a diverse crowd of around 100 very special guests from near and far. Harry from Japan plays the trumpet; Baxter from the...

Will our civilisation survive this century?

Roman remains: Extensive ruins such as those of the Roman colony of Thamugadi (Timgad) in modern-day Algeria remind us that civilisations can and do collapse. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/PhR61.) In 100 AD, the Roman emperor Trajan founded a new colony in Northern Africa, which he called colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi or Thamugadi for short. Planned to cover a surface of 12 hectares with its s...

Will increasing medical school enrollment solve Canada's physician supply problems?

Will discrete symmetries help solve the hierarchy problem ?

We find that massless Higgs doublets at the GUT scale can be the natural result of a discrete symmetry. Such a mechanism does not require elaborate fine tuning or complicated particle content. The same discrete symmetry will also protect against proton decay and flavor changing neutral currents. However, this mechanism always predicts non-minimal standard models. An explicit example of how this...