Archive for February 2nd, 2008

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Science Etcetera 20080202

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Saturn's Moon Iapetus

Saturn’s Moon Iapetus
Image by NASA

  • Using images from the Cassini flybys and filling in the poles with Voyager images, NASA Scientists were able construct a Map of Saturn’s Moon Iapetus.
  • Women’s studies have always been offered, ivory has always been banned, and their Professors will be men and women in equal numbers, meet the Class of 2011.
  • A Finnish patient has received a new jawbone grown from in his abdomen using stem cells.
  • Driving an SUV in London will now cost $50 Per Day, Hybrids drive free.
  • Does being No Longer necessary for sperm production, make men obsolete for reproduction?
  • Now that we’ve got one for ovarian cancer, is a Vaccine for Prostate Cancer around the corner?
  • In celebration of Explorer’s anniversary, NASA Broadcasts Beatles “Across the Universe” to Polaris, the RIAA followed the broadcast with a cease and desist order (ht Carolyn (for the joke), Clint (for the link), and Flying Sirkus (for this cool cover of the song)):


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