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Saving the Earth by Shrinking Humans

Image: The Incredible Shrinking Man If you have run out of controversial topics for dinner conversation, or websites to stumble upon, here’s one for you. The Incredible Shrinking Man project researches and reviews the “implications of genetically downsizing the human species to better fit the earth.” You might think this ranks somewhere between the lunatic fringe and a last-ditch gamble to avoid the extinction of humankind in a sci-fi novel. We did. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Saving the Earth by Shrinking Humans

Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher

photo: Andy Zeigert via flickr You’ve probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast the leak out of existence. Thankfully, according to a New York Times report, the US government has no plans to act on what one senior official described as a “crazy” plan:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher