Comet/Asteroid Impact Effects Calculator.

I stole the url of this nifty metorite effects calculator from azrhey.

Here's wishing she's over her nasty sickness soon!

Healthy Heart Diet.

Researchers have invented a diet that they claim reduces heart disease risks by 76%. Dubbed the 'polymeal' diet, it recommends the following foods:

• Red Wine - 150 ml/day
• Dark Chocolate - 100 g/day
• Fruits and Vegetables - 400 g/day
• Fresh Garlic - 2.7 g/day
• Almonds - 68 g/day
• Fresh Fish - 4 x 114 / week

I can certainly imagine far worse diets to be on.

Making arbitrary objects touch sensitive.

Sensitive Object is a firm that has invented one of those so-astoundingly-obvious-why-didn't-I-think-of-it technologies. By attaching a pair of ultra-sensitive accelerometers to an arbitrary ridid object, they can detect where on the surface it has been touched, making most any kind of object a touch sensitive device. I can think of literally hundreds of uses for such a thing. The big question in my mind is, how complex can the geometry of the rigid object be? Can a carved candlestick or decorateve sculpture be used as a touch device yet, or is that asking too much right now?

Oelestra might be good for something?

I'm surprised to say that some studies have shown that oelestra, a synthetic fat substitute made famous by its use in some varieties of Pringles can increase the rate at which the body purges itself of harmful toxins by almost 30-fold. It seems especially good at dealing with PCB and dioxins in the body.

And here I thought it was only good for causing unfortunate anal leakages.

Green Tea aids in Brain Regeneration?

Here is another report linking the use of Green Tea to healthier brains and neurons.