The New York State Legislature, long a hotbed of turf wars, ethnic politics, naked self interest, backroom dealings and general incompetence, has finally outdone itself. The New York State Senate is currently deadlocked in a 31-31 split between Democrats and Republicans, with the consequence...

Classical singers are always in need of sheet music copies of arias, either to peruse for possible future repertoire or as a last minute replacement for a score left at home.  A great deal of classical sheet music is currently in the public domain and thus legal to copy for personal use, but...

As a classical singer, I'm often asked to sing for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, birthday parties, anniversary events, etc. and I'm sometimes at a loss for a variety of options to offer the event host.  Language requirements are occasionally given or secular versus non-secular...

One  challenge for current medical research, and especially genetic research, is that most people with extensive health records are sick or in some way unhealthy.  We know much more about the sick than about the healthy, let alone the super-healthy.  Therefore, I'd like to see both...

It is a huge environmental waste to package and transport bottled water to offices when there is already running water in the building that could be filtered, cooled, and made available to office workers for hydration. Water companies are driving large trucks that pollute the environment to...

I am a frequent user of the New York Public Library system and am tremendously grateful to be able to request books, view my list of checkouts and even download audiobooks online, but I find myself wishing for one really key option: email alerts to let me know of the approaching due date...

A public service that will let two or more people schedule a meeting.  Just provide email address, calendar service, schedule rules, and it will poll your individual calendars to suggest a time.

Current survival rates from cardiac arrests in most major cities is in the single digit percentage. By getting motivated trained people equipped with mobile technology to locate victims of cardiac arrest in an urban landscape, the percentage of survival rates can be as high as 70-90%.

This is a science challenge. It is my own defining commitment and the subject of my basic research. The challenge is to identify a truly scientific explanation of experience in nature. I, at least, contend that such an explanation is not only possible, it is necessary for any unified physical...

The idea is to make Mars livable for human beings, by giving it a climate similar to Earth's (Terra's).  This should be easier to do on Mars than on Earth because no one lives there to complain; we can experiment with less concern for errors. It will take a few decades and several 10s of...

Would you like to make a contribution of historical proportions? Here's your chance. This challenge is to create technology that can literally help to reshape our world, liberate hundreds of millions of people from repression, and bring down evil regimes in the process. There are few...

Some analysis suggests that emissions and contrails from planes, can have positive and negative impact on global warming (e.g. reflecting sun or acting as greenhouse) depending on time of day, altitude, cloud and atmospheric conditions, time/season of year, geodesic location.

Revive and refresh scientific publishing, resoling the following problems: * Peer review process is used both to sort works by importance (slotting more important work into more important journals) and spot major errors. Unfortunately, it also selects against work outside the mainstream. We...

We seek a software applet that will shade shapes of an .shp or .svg file based upon  external data.. We work for Democrats and progressive causes and  frequently generate maps to aid in the understanding of the political landscape in a congressional or local race.  Geographical boundaries...

Current prosthetic legs are expensive and only last 3 to 4 years. To win this challenge you must create a complete design for high-performance legs that will last for at least 5 years and that can be built for less than USD$1,000.00 Users must be able to run and sprint comfortably as well to...

While venture capitalists pass on companies for many reasons, one of the most common reasons is that they don't think the opportunity is "big enough". What does this mean?  It means that even if the company executes as planned, the VC doesn't think the exit will be large enough to generate...

Counterfeit medicine is fake medicine. It may be contaminated or contain the wrong or no active ingredient.  The counterfeiting of medicines has been known of since around 1990 and is a growing problem in both developing and developed countries. Counterfeit medicines are estimated as more...

There's still an ongoing debate whether cellular phone radiofrequency radiation is indeed clinically harmful. Never the less, given the immense numbers of users of mobile phones, even small adverse effects on health could have major public health implications. Note children are especially at...

Develop a small and portable device that measures purity of the milk. Impure and contaminated milk is a big problem in China, India and many other developing countries. Over 50% of the milk is distributed by small dairy owners and distributors and less than 50% by the large companies. Due to...

The Possibility DansCause is creating for the food ecosystem is the possibility of being Transparent and Healthy   Most of the idea's should revolve around handing over the decision making process to the now well informed consumer. As of now, we have too many multi-corporate agrabusinesses...

How many times do you simply click "I agree" to a bunch of legal-ese without having read a single word? How often do you check the box which says you've read the full Terms of Service for a product download or a website sign-up, when you've merely scrolled past it all to the bottom of the...

First, create a list in excel as follows: Company Name, Company Phone Number, Company Website Listing all of the property management companies in NYC. This alone will be useful. Next, create a list of buildings with their corresponding management companies: Street Address of Building,...

The US is littered with basketball rims without nets.  There are a few reasons for this:  1. neglect 2. purposeful destruction of property. 3. some rims fasterners crack off leaving the rim in a condition where no net can be replaced. I have many drawings of how to solve this problem, but...

Create a Google QSB plugin that allows me to quick add to Google Calendar. Deliver me the source code.

This challenge is to create content for a website dedicated to helping foreigners invest and do business in the US.  Labor & Employment Practices is an area of significant concern for most foreign businesses coming to the US.  The content should address unions, discrimination and equal...