PBS has a page dedicated to our 6 Billion people milestone. Featured on the top is a counter: Babies born since you entered this page. Kind of eerie, but after reading this week, pretty alarmist, too. I notice that the world population counter icrements in synch with the babies born counter. What about people dying?

There’s more stone faces here than you can shake a stick at. By the way, did you know that a facial profile to the left is feminine?

Has the face of the creator of Stonehenge been staring at us unrecognised for more than 4,000 years?

Negotiating for a raise successfully: Maybe you know your intrinsic worth can never be measured by a paycheck – but you also know that a few extra bucks can do wonders for your ego.

Dan Hartung over at the Lake Effect Weblog linked to me today, and the hits keep coming in. Welcome, everyone! I hope you enjoy your stay. Thanks for the good word, Dan. Come back anytime.

Robot Wisdom pointed me to a New Scientist article that reports Buckyballs having wave-like properties. Zeilinger foresees similar results with objects as large as viruses. “People think that quantum is small and classical is large,” he says. “But really, the quantum world has no boundary.” My favorite physics professor had it right all along. Her usual way to describe slit-interference experiments involved a stream of small dogs shot through a picket fence.

A friend of mine is looking for a house to buy. He found a candidate last night, out in the country. It has its own well since there is no municipal water system out there. He also noticed an industrial site a couple miles away and wondered how that might affect the well water. With a couple mouse clicks over at the EPA, he found out that the industrial site has some major pollution. See how many sites are near your house!

Bob Zmuda remembers when he first saw Andy Kaufman, when Andy did his Elvis impression at the Improv.

World New York pointed me to a fantastic article in the New Statesman. This article warns that we should not fear overpopulation, but instead underpopulation. Sounds strange, but even the UN, who has sounded all sorts of alarms this week, agrees that the world population will soon peak and then plummet. Not from famine, disease, and the “obvious” suspects, but from the fact that women’s rise in society has caused the world birth rate to drop drastically. In much of the industrial world, the birth rate is already too low to sustain current population levels. The developing world is showing the same trend. It’s a very interesting read, and it’s a viewpoint I hadn’t heard expressed before.

The Immanuel Baptist Church has taken the time to draw up a chart explaining what happens when we die.