Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080506

May 6th, 2008

Be one of the first 10,000 people to register as a bone marrow donor, and the registration is free (as in BEER (except you’re signing up to save someone’s life)).

This electrical storm on Saturn has been going on since November 2007:

Persistent Electrical Storm on Saturn
Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

Beauty is an inappropriately-named Bald Eagle that had her upper beak shot off, now conservationists are getting ready to equip her with a prosthetic one.

Loosing or gaining weight only effects the amount of fat stored in fat cells, the number of fat cells you have is set when you’re an adolescent. There are skeptics of this research conclusion.

From the guy who brought you monster.com, comes social networking for the dead.

How water forms in space.

Volvo has set out to build an injury-proof car by 2020.

Writers for the show Lost agonize over the science that goes into it, and then leave much of it on the cutting room floor to maintain the mystery.

Pollution makes men more likely to go bald.

A list of people who physicians will let die in the event of a pandemic has some wondering if it violates laws against age and disability discrimination. What do you think?

Available in the United States in July, Isabella Rossellini takes a very artsy and funny look at sex in the insect world with Green Porno. Check out how wildlife gets busy in your backyard (more videos at the site):