Not all critical problems in our world are solvable

Canadian among Nobel winners in economics, Oct. 12 One would think that since Americans dominate every year for the Nobel Prizes in the sciences and economics, all that brainpower would solve many of the social and natural problems they face.

Much of this brilliance is associated with top universities in California, where eight of the 10 Nobel laureates this year in medicine, physics, chemistry and economics were educated, affiliated with or are now professors.

I recently returned from a trip to Los Angeles and was astounded by the magnitude of its homeless problem. Not hundreds, but thousands of plastic tents line the sidewalks across the city, especially on the outskirts of the downtown core.

Jacob Mendlovic, Toronto