Links Out the Ear

[the_gneech]

It's a linky, linky morning.

From Arts & Letters Daily:

• Myths of British Ancestry -- "Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong. Our ancestors were Basques, not Celts. The Celts were not wiped out by the Anglo-Saxons, in fact neither had much impact on the genetic stock of these islands."



• Can Men Write Romantic Novels? -- "TV presenter Daisy Goodwin sparked a storm by claiming they can't. Here, two Telegraph writers, Ray Connolly and Liz Hunt, lock horns over the issue." I dunno, if a man wrote about women what Liz Hunt does here, he'd be burned at the stake.



• Dumbing Up -- "John Wiley & Sons, which bought the Dummies brand in 2001, cranks out 200 new Dummies titles a year. At that rate, there may soon be more Dummies books out there than dummies to read them."

From bauske: USB-rechargable Batteries -- Neat. :)

From gamera_spinning: How Brain's 'Mirrors' Aid Our Social Understanding -- "Human beings are exquisitely attuned to social cues and the behavior of others. Such signals tell us what is ahead and give us time to prepare. They tell us about many things that are never explicitly articulated in everyday life. Much of the time, in fact, we do not appreciate how skilled we are at reading social situations. We only realize how ingrained our ability to read social cues is when we see people with serious deficits in social awareness, such as people with autism or schizophrenia."

-The Gneech

Comments

[raemonde.livejournal.com]

] There goes my dream of writing trashy romance novels women like so much (or at least buy so much... by the sackful...) until I make it big. =P

] The article makes me think of the line by Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets" about how he writes women. "I think of a man - and then I take away reason and accountability."

-Rob

[rowyn]

Men are every bit as capable of writing romance novels as women are of writing war novels. Ms. Hunt ought to be ashamed of herself. (And Wuthering Heights is the most appalling excuse for a romance I've ever read; unbelievable, unlikeable trash. No idea what either one of these people saw in it.)

Of course, because people are stupid, women writing war novels and men writing romances are both more likely to be successful at it if they use a psuedonym or initials for their first name. :P