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Are There Just Too Many People in the World?

Science – The subject is overpopulation. Is our planet over-stuffed with human beings? Are we breeding to excess? These questions are increasingly poking into public debate, and from odd directions.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 12:02pm

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Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf

Politics – The contractors felt they had been unfairly arrested and, once in the military prisons, they said they were treated with physical abuse and disrespect. What really happened has never been definitively established, although subsequently it was announced that the contractors had been cleared of all charges.

View Story Discuss (0) (metimes.com) 12 hours ago by tehranchik

Voted for on May 16, 2008 12:00pm

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Saudi Arabia rebuffs Bush on oil production

News – The White House said Friday that Saudi Arabia's leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it.

View Story Discuss (1) (msnbc.msn.com) 12 hours ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on May 16, 2008 11:59am

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The Last Bite: Is the World's Food System Collapsing?

Food – The global food market fosters both scarcity and overconsumption, while imperilling the planet's ability to produce food in the future.

View Story Discuss (0) (newyorker.com) 1 day ago by Neophile

Voted for on May 16, 2008 11:26am

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MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery

Science – As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks are exquisitely adapted to the birds' feeding strategy. A team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has now explained exactly how some shorebirds use their long, thin beaks to defy gravity and transport food into their mouths.

View Story Discuss (0) (web.mit.edu) 1 day ago by capn_caveman

Voted for on May 16, 2008 11:26am

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New time-lapse analysis could spell trouble for chemistry theory

Science – Chemists can now watch the structures of molecules as they change shape, much like shooting multiple frames of a galloping horse. The new view reveals that when certain molecules switch between different conformations, they do so less often than expected - a finding that could require chemists to revise their theories.

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Astronomers baffled by weird, fast-spinning pulsar

Science – Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.

View Story Discuss (0) (reuters.com) 1 day ago by capn_caveman

Voted for on May 16, 2008 11:26am

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NASA Satellite Finds Interior of Mars Is Colder

Science – New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. The findings suggest any liquid water that might exist below the planet's surface, and any possible organisms living in that water, would be located deeper than scientists had suspected.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 11:26am