This Week in the Future, January 3-7, 2011

For Sale Now: One 762-Horsepower, Bright-Yellow Amphibious Hot Rod, Barely Used: http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-01/sale-one-762-horsepower-bright-yellow-amphibious-hot-rod-barely-used

Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/five-hundred-more-dead-blackbirds-louisiana-further-puzzle-investigators
or
What Cataclysm Killed the Birds in Arkansas (and Louisiana, and Sweden)? Maybe None: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/what-killed-birds-arkansas-and-louisiana-and-sweden-you-did

Giant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/giant-rats-can-detect-tuberculosis-greater-accuracy-microscope-test

Swedish Firm Proposes Configurable Cities With Buildings that Roll Around on Rails: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/swedish-firm-proposes-configurable-cities-buildings-roll-around-rails

The Nerd Herd (nerdherd.ucoz.com)

Giant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test

Swedish Firm Proposes Configurable Cities With Buildings that Roll Around on Rails

Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators

For Sale Now: One 762-Horsepower, Bright-Yellow Amphibious Hot Rod, Barely Used

Looks like five articles to me. What about Bacteria Ate All the Methane From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, New Study Says?

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/bacteria-ate-all-methane-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-new-study-says