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