Szaky entered the idea of doing the compost tea on a mass basis in a university contest but finished fourth.

CNN: Envisioning a world without garbage

Despite its wobbly basis, the myth of mass panic remains steadfastly attached to The War of the Worlds programme.

BBC: The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

The last thing these unions would sanction would be the mass employment of young workers on a temporary basis at living, but not union-scale, wages and benefits.

FORBES: New Geographer

If China eventually uses as much oil on a per capita basis as crowded, good-mass transit-having, high gasoline tax Western Europe, it will come to between 26 million bpd and 30 million bpd, an increase of between 18 million bpd and 22 million bpd.

FORBES: Petroleum Balance

Such elements included a merit-based (non-aristocratic) military leadership combined with mass conscription, sophisticated taxation systems and a bureaucracy recruited from a permanent administrative cadre selected on the basis of ability rather than family connection.

ECONOMIST: Theories of history

The air quality would certainly be a lot worse if the commuters turned to conventional buses. (Calculated on a per passenger journey basis, experts say, buses emit 100 times the level of respirable particles generated by mass rail.) Ditto for congestion.

CNN: The Best Transport

It allows mass market development of an open, trusted application environment and is complementary to the existing secure elements offered on the basis of smart card technology.

ENGADGET: ARM seeks better security for connected devices, teams up with Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient