United Airlines' six 787s will be out of action until further notice, joining planes from India, Chile, and Japan, as well as aircraft under the European regulators' aegis.
Inspired by the rapid-fire response of the tech world to the earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. government is planning to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech.
It's been a couple of years since I last visited Peru, and more than five since I had an apartment in Chile, and these gaps highlight an unmistakable trend. The center of the world is shifting from the developed to the developing world.
Game-changing endeavors from the developing world are no longer only occurring in China and India--Thailand, Egypt, Malaysia and others are making moves on the global scene.
I am quite obsessed with the (now) feel-good story about the trapped miners and their rescue. I was taken with Luis Urzua's leadership, especially during the first couple of weeks when they were trapped with little food and no knowledge of the efforts being made to rescue them. And I love what the President said to Luis.
The visualization below doesn't need much explanation. It's a wonderfully simple illustration of how the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean copper-gold mine have managed to survive over the past couple months: by living off deliveries in packages about the size of a Campbell's soup can.
