speaking of conspiracies, i'm rather convinced that the only reason the us government cares about looking for life on mars or titan or anywhere else is that where there is life there is oil. well, the flip side is what, exactly?
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5719/ingredient-used-in-plastics-found-on-titan

here's a good use of gmos, so long as some company somewhere doesn't patent a way to monopolize a three or four step payment process...
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-nitrogen-fertilizer-uncovered.html

i was hoping they'd analyze questions of carrying capacity. as it is, this is speculative, and somewhat specious.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/the-first-great-human-population-explosion
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/09/quebec-charter-and-me#.UjtEw4FaXAI.facebook