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  1. Is a climate deal that involves the material lowering of living standards for rich countries politically possible?http://tinyurl.com/yaagvb3 6:10 AM Dec 20th from web
  2. On balance, is someone with poor credit better off having access to credit, no matter how high the interest rate? http://tinyurl.com/yzs62ha 2:34 PM Dec 18th from Twitterrific
  3. What Google knows about you: Should we be concerned about potential abuse by governments? http://www.scroogle.org/doctorow.html 11:03 AM Dec 15th from Twitterrific
  4. What are the societal impacts of advertising prescription medicines to the general public? http://tinyurl.com/ybgq27j 8:58 PM Dec 13th from Twitterrific
  5. To what extent would society suffer if the internet itself were to fail? http://tinyurl.com/ylelagf 4:07 PM Dec 11th from web
  6. Should we build the health care costs of obesity into the contributing factors? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/health/policy/29diet.html 2:30 PM Dec 1st from web
  7. News Media: Is the trend towards lighter reporting and heavier opinion and analysis a net gain or loss? http://tinyurl.com/yfpbfnz 7:32 PM Nov 17th from web
  8. Does the average citizen vote with an understanding of how much influence lobbyists have on what government does? http://tinyurl.com/yeqzvyh 12:31 PM Nov 15th from web
  9. Should we leverage the power of public embarassment to change environmental behavior? http://ww... Read more at http://bit.ly/32hrrU 5:49 AM Nov 15th from TwitterMail
  10. Given the non-biodegradable nature of most plastics, should we phase them out? http://bit.ly/ZUqJs 6:27 PM Nov 13th from TwitterMail
  11. Should ISPs be any more responsible for what customers do on networks than governments are for roads? http://tinyurl.com/yav63je 8:48 AM Nov 8th from web
  12. Public Servants: Should the expectation of public loyalty to government policies be any different for scientists? http://tinyurl.com/yg7xnqb 4:17 AM Nov 5th from web
  13. Juries: Does the average citizen know how to correctly interpret the statistics presented in trials? http://tinyurl.com/ygj3nu8 5:54 PM Oct 28th from web
  14. Are restrictive abortion laws an effective way to change behaviour? http://www.economist.com/re... Read more at http://bit.ly/2wQRF8 8:52 PM Oct 23rd from TwitterMail
  15. Income disparity: At what point does the gap become something government should act on? http:/... Read more at http://bit.ly/4fCf1t 8:48 PM Oct 23rd from TwitterMail
  16. "National Security" -how can we ensure that it is not used to shield those in power from their crimes? http://tinyurl.com/yko8uhk 8:25 PM Oct 19th from web
  17. Are harder prisons more effective? http://bit.ly/1JHXFb 8:22 PM Oct 19th from TwitterMail
  18. Will science eventually eliminate the "supernatural"? http://bit.ly/10LsOI 4:45 PM Oct 19th from TwitterMail
  19. Should the "overweight" be a protected group in hate crime legislation? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8314125.stm 4:15 PM Oct 19th from TwitterMail
  20. Why should we protect anonymity on the web? http://bit.ly/apoIU 3:16 PM Oct 17th from TwitterMail
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