If you have some spare time and an interest in chocolate, here are a bunch of articles that you will find interesting. Curated by the Smithsonian, they include: a medicinal history of chocolate, the economics of chocolate, chocolate in space, an evaluation of the recent drinking chocolate craze (which ANTH 204 students know is actually more of a return to chocolate’s roots) , even the physics of what makes good chocolate. Truly something for everyone. Enjoy, and tell me what you are reading! And as if we need more examples of the connection between chocolate and power, here is a great one: Hershey’s has just inked a sweet deal that prevents the importation of British made Cadbury’s chocolate bars into the US. Curious? Read on…