I knew there had to be benefits to chocolate. Take that Mom.

Just a tiny amount of dark chocolate seems to lower blood pressure, a small study suggests.
The new research from Germany adds to mounting evidence linking dark chocolate with health benefits, but it is the first to suggest that so little may [...]

The Kerala region of India is known for their cooking, namely fish based dishes. Well, the term “it’s raining cats and dogs” took on a decidely different spin this past Thursday.
When the clouds broke last Thursday, villagers said they saw small, pencil-thin live fish falling from the sky.
“Initially no one noticed it. But soon, [...]

Please, whatever you do, for the love of (insert deity) don’t be eating while you read this piece.
Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.
Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy’s [...]

From the “Ummmm… Yah… Umkay… I’m gonna have to ask you what you did with the money” files… It seems that ISS (the orbity one, not the IDSy one) is having a bit of an issue with the combination of hardware and software necessary to keep it’s altitude adjusted correctly. You see, ISS was [...]

From the “could we please cure cancer now instead?” files… The Register, a noted technology rag has gone off on a tangent again. This time, they’re not verbally abusing other bloggers, but rather, explaining in excruciating detail the intricacies of the belly button.
I suppose the IT industry just isn’t running the ‘hot news‘ [...]

From the “People about to be excommunicated and they didn’t even know it” files… The designated astronomer of the Holy See has apparenlty not taken leave of his senses (as apparently have most of the “we don’t support paedophilia” church-goers) and has stated publicly that the concept of Creationism as a rational response to the [...]