Getting access to the best physicians can cost a small fortune, but with a service like Grand Rounds tapped into a massive network of expert providers, that cost drops off dramatically.
In her super-insightful TED talk of 2010, game designer and academic Jane McGonigal asked if gaming could help make a better world, arguing that an estimated 1.5 billion "virtuoso" gamers represent a massive untapped resource of expert problem solvers just waiting to … solve all the world's problems!
Last week, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announced the results of its national ecosystem assessment, a massive exercise involving 500 experts.
A separate plenary panel in a massive ballroom brought together experts who tried to understand why so many Christians fail to recognize that there is a scientific consensus on climate change or do not do not trust these findings.
More than 70 companies, governments and non-profit organizations around the world were attacked by hackers in a massive cyberspying operation that experts say was likely conducted by China.
The lawyers have and will continue to see a massive payout, as will the expert witnesses brought in to testify.
That rule, said Daniel Sperling, an air board member and a UC Davis transportation fuel expert, spurred "a massive expansion of corn ethanol". The corn from which ethanol is derived requires large amounts of water and petroleum-based fertilizer to produce and, according to some studies, diverts land from pastures and rain forests, which store carbon.
Experts say a massive response is needed to confront California's punishing dry spell, now languishing into a fourth year and exacerbated by scorching temperatures.
After a new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus appeared in soldiers, public health experts urged a massive vaccination campaign.
