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You've heard of kosher salt? Now there's a Christian variety. Retired barber Joe Godlewski says he was inspired by television chefs who repeatedly recommended kosher salt in recipes.

"I said, 'What the heck's the matter with Christian salt?'" Godlewski said.

Excerpted from: The Examiner

They consulted a rabbi for some information, and I must admit that I'm a bit confused by his explanation that "salt is inherently kosher because it occurs naturally and requires little or no processing." Bacon, for example, shouldn't require much different processing time than other meats and it grows naturally too (put a few pigs together... add some time and you've got piglets... add some time and food and ...)

Not only an Old Testament prophet, but also apparently a cell phone:

Andrew Cheatle thought his Nokia handset had been lost at sea after it slipped from his pocket.

But a week later his girlfriend’s mobile rang and it was fisherman Glen Kerley saying he’d found the phone in a 25lb fish.

Andrew got the handset back, dried it out — and amazingly it still works.

After three years of research, Georg Steinhauser, a chemist, has discovered a type of body hair that traps stray pieces of lint and draws them into the navel.

Dr Steinhauser made his discovery after studying 503 pieces of fluff from his own belly button.

The Telegraph

I suppose that as odd as this is, it still seems a little more purposeful than things like UC Berkeley's Starcraft class

Stable unchanging climates lasting for several thousand years tend to reduce diversity, but when the climate changes to either hotter or colder by a small amount the first response is an increase in biodiversity. This is because the new conditions give rare species a chance to flourish while the established ones have not had time to decline … [I]t is important to keep in mind that biodiversity and environmental quality are not simply proportional … So rich biodiversity is not necessarily something highly desirable and to be preserved at all costs.

Source: James Lovelock, via Freakonomics