Third Contact

Local energy: what a good idea

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/04/councils-generate-own-power-big-six-energy-fuel-poverty

Is it too late for the Earth?

Science-says-revolt

Unlikely Film Star and Cultural Theorist

Blending Fact and Fiction - The Goldsmiths Prize

http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2013/10/goldsmiths-prize-where-boundaries-fiction-and-non-fiction-cede-creativity

It's on the tip of my tongue

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/13/clive-thompson-smarter-than-you-think/

NOAH Short | Short Cuts Canada | Festival 2013

The Capitalist Network that runs the World

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html#.Ui8L8GSG05s

The Limits of Positive Thinking

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/sep/04/candide-mark-ravenhill#start-of-comments

Cartoon Expert

Love this app called Cartoon Expert. Been playing all evening :) Tired now. Night.

The Inner Book

Inspirational stuff from Tony Garnett

Inspirational stuff from Tony Garnett in today's Guardian. Garnett campaigns for the reinstatement of the single play as the driver for creativity likening contemporary soap to fast food. Garnett also reveals how his mother's wartime back-street abortion affected him sparking a life-long interest in love and it's relationship to politics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/28/tony-garnett-love-politics-tragedy?INTCMP=SRCH

Tony Garnett Single Play 1965

Tamsin Little plays violin

Fifty Shades of Gay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAJ-5J21Rd0

I really enjoyed this video which questions assumptions we often make about each other and ourselves.
Funny and thought provoking.

Do you know what Polyamory is?

Do you know what polyamory is? I didn't (but could make an educated guess) so I was interested to read a piece in the NewStatesman making the case for it and demanding that Michael Philpott  not be adopted as its poster boy.

http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/04/dont-use-mick-philpotts-case-stick-bash-polyamory

Neanderthal Eyes

I am fascinated by Neantherthals and the fact that many of us have Neanderthal genes - I don't know if I have but began to wonder when I heard of their superior eyes and visual processing which began to remind me of descriptions of dyslexia.

Neanderthal eyes apparently took up too much room in the skull and didn't leave enough brainpower for social networking, which means that all the poor Neanderthals died out in the Ice Age - well maybe.

I can't help wondering, knowing human beings, if perhaps Homo Sapiens (that's us) killed them or drove them into the most inhospitable terrain? Just a thought.

Further reading:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21759233

Cinematic means Poetic

The Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky once said, "There is only one way of thinking in cinema: poetically."

The Finnish-Swedish writer and poet, Tua Forsström, who takes inspiration from Tarkovsky expresses this idea the other way round. She thinks of poetry cinematically.

The Snow Whirls over the Courtyard's Roses 

The snow whirls over the courtyard roses.
Didn't bring my boots and scarf, leafing
through books, don't know what to do with all this light!

See the link below for the full version of her her poem: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/mar/04/poem-week-the-snow-whirls-tua-forsstrom?CMP=twt_gu

Organic computers are here

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/422e4e8a-8197-11e2-904c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2MHvLHgSD

Do you think what I think?

Soon we will be able to link brains together using technology designed to help paralysed people control computers and robotic arms. Currently this is in its infancy - so far only two rats have been have been linked together - but they were thousands of miles apart. 

Imagine if we could do that with humans - think Twitter and Facebook!

Coming to a cinema near you soon...

Near the Olympic Park on a spring day

http://instagr.am/p/V-EXVDB4Gr/

Hilary Mantel: precise words and media impact

http://www.newstatesman.com/cultural-capital/2013/02/hilary-mantels-precise-unkind-words-have-been-twisted-venomous-attack-kate

What UK Non-Fiction Editors Want 2013

http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/2013/01/12/what-uk-non-fiction-editors

The strange world of the psychopathic test

Revenge is rarely sweet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/06/revenge-rarely-sweet-pryce-huhne?INTCMP=SRCH

Richard 111 and Scoliosis

Would Pilates have helped Richard III ?

Article by Julie Myerson