Médecins Sans Frontières, Engineers without Borders, the recent data collection efforts by computer scientists to locate missing persons with Hurricaine Katerina, ways to fight malaria, virtual reality technology to enable the disabled, alternative sources of energy, little grubs that eat garbage, the list goes on and on.

A group to explore the contributions science, engineering and medicine can make toward making the world a better place. And a place to discuss technically some of the popular press articles that appear from time to time about scientific or medical breakthroughs, so through conversation, we may improve general scientific literacy and understanding of what things mean.