The conference is bringing the scientists and the researchers into the region where the biggest problem lies.

We're devoted at this conference to looking at how we can best pair scientists with each other and with the communities to get this technology available quickly.

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

For one man's chin is as rough as another's, and one man's lies are as smooth as another's

Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do they think it will seem better to pretend there is no one else involved? Do they think it will be less hurtful for their partners to think they just walked out because they couldn't stand them any more and then had the good fortune to meet some tall Omar Sharif-figure with a gentleman's handbag two weeks afterwards while the ex-partner is spending his evenings bursting into tears at the sight of the toothbrush mug? It's like those people who invent a lie as an excuse rather than the truth, even when the truth is better than the lie.

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.