ScienceLinks March 15 08

The first installment of the weekly saturday linking!

First up, a Kansas woman managed to fuse herself to a toilet seat! She sat there so long, an estimated three to four weeks, that her body suffered pressure sores, and the healed over them and thus onto the toilet!

We all know that drinking during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome, but even those that escape FAS could be more prone to alcoholism later in life, as Psychology Today reports.

Scientists in Germany claim that a home field advantage in Football (Soccer) does not yield a significant advantage. Even though, they say that the home team usually scores more, but despite this no team appears to play at a markedly different level home vs away.

A new study claims that every native american, in North, Central, and South America, can be genetically traced back to six individual women. Why women? Well, they used mitochondrial DNA of course! Want to know more about how that works? Check back in a few days and I'll have an article up.

There was an earthquake that measured an impressive 5.9 on the Richter Scale off the coast of Oregon, and there was another earthquake seconds later near California that clocked in at 3.8.

Any of these topics interest you? Don't understand something, or are just plain curious? Want to know how a Richter scale functions, or what proof we really have about a genetic component of alcoholism? Leave a comment or send me a message and I'll elaborate on one, or even all of these topics if I get feedback on all of them.