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The female doctors debate heats up as experts discuss the implications of having too many women in medicine.

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• Terra Sigillata takes on the "Are there too many female doctors?" debate. • Wired brings us this video that turns an interview with Yearning for Zion Ranch wives into a "weirdo dance-music mashup"—though it's hard to get much weirder than the original interview. • We've covered how useful dogs are as drug sniffers. So why not take the best noses around and clone them? (Along with the rest of the dog, that is.) • Framing Science offers an analysis of the controversial cover for Time magazine's global warming issue, as well as the debate surrounding it. • Tom Simonite at New Scientist asks: Will a tanking economy in real life lead to a booming economy in Second Life? • Feeling secure in your mastery of the universe? Take John Tierney's three-question astronomy quiz. (Answers here.)

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