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...