Daniel Schaffer is the public information officer for the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics and the Third World Academy of Sciences. He was previously employed as director of communications at the University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment and Resources Center and as a writer and editor for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He has written on science and technology issues both in the developed and developing world for more than 15 years and was the Editor-in-Chief of Forum, a science policy journal published jointly by the University of Tennessee. TVA and Oak Ridge Natio...