Gruesome tale of a man with tapeworm . If this doesn't make sure you never eat raw meat then nothing will

Welcome Europe - Malta in the E.U. celebrations Malta held the biggest celebration for entering the EU on April 30. Highlight was a spectacular light show which featured the premiere of Ca Ira, the long-awaited opera by Roger Waters, ex of Pink floyd

Shekhina Something I never knew about - apparently there is a femal aspect of God written about it Hebrew mythology -

Telegraph | News | Medieval sea chart was in line with current thinking The 16th-century Carta Marina, an early sea chart seems to show that mediaeval mariners knew about, and mapped, dangerous eddies in the sea. The map is covered in images of sea serpents and monsters and swirling shapes, man of which seem to correspond to eddies such as where the Gulf stream meets with colder Arctic waters. More info here

Stonehenge - Aotearoa New Zealand is about to get a modern Stonhenge of it's own. The designers have used computers to create an accurate series of alignment so that, in addition to predicting solstices, it will also reperesent the astronomical alignments that ancient Polynesians used for navigation purposes