Perseids Meteor Shower - image by Mila Zinkova. (This image has a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, for details, click [here])
Welcome (back) to Weirdbeautiful. Today's first link is to a yahoo news feature on the best place to watch the Perseids Meteor Shower tonight (from the UK)-
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/best-places-to-watch-the-perseids-meteor-shower-.html
This year, the Perseids are active/ visible between July 17th and August 24th, but peak on 13th August.
You can find more details on the shower, which is primarily visible from the Earth's Northern Hemisphere, on Gary Kronk's Meteor Shower page, [here].
Meanwhile, Weird science story of the week this week is a tale of man finding out that he has a uterus-
http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/indian-man-has-hysterectomy-after-doctors-find-uterus.html
Artificial Spinal Disc- image by Rama (this image has a creative commons 2.0 license- for details, click [here])
Today's final link is to an article about the development of artificial/bionic replacement spinal discs to cure back pain. As the article explains, back pain due to spinal disc damage is very common from mid-life onwards, so any progress in this field is very welcome.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2021329/Man-spinal-discs-cure-pain-decade.html
Since almost all Western nations now have ageing populations, we can surely expect a strong push to develop better treatments for a panoply of diseases-of-old-age over the next few decades. Joint pain/arthritis/arthrosis, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's are obvious candidates; it is certainly an interesting time to be a biologist.
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