Headline of the Day

Underbelly's Deutschland bureau reads Der Spiegel so we don't have to (link):

SIZE ISN'T EVERYTHING

Tiny Brain No Problem for French Tax Official

Turns out there is a real story here:

The commonly spouted wisdom that people only use 10 percent of their brain power may have been dismissed as a myth, but one French man seems to be managing fine with just a small fraction of his actual brain.

In fact the man, who works as a civil servant in southern France, has succeeded in living an entirely normal life despite a huge fluid-filled cavity taking up most of the space where his brain should be

Neurologists at the University of Marseille described the incredible case in the latest edition of the medical journal Lancet published Friday.

Meta-footnote:Eeuw, too easy. An hour after I blogged this, Technorati links to 26 others blogs, i.e., not to me but to the original post. Apologies for wasting everyone's time.