Interesting Links for 28-4-2011

[andrewducker]

• What can movie stars tell us about marriage? That education matters.
  (tags: education relationships)
• Small areas of the brain go to sleep when we're up too late
  (tags: sleep brain)
• Simple tests may spot autism in one-year-olds
  (tags: autism children)
• Aircraft carrier costs to rise by at least a billion (again) - now double the original cost.
  (tags: military uk budget EpicFail)
• The Suck Fairy - when re-reading childhood favourites is a bad idea.
  (tags: books reading)
• Apple is apparently not storing your location. Kinda.
  (tags: apple location privacy)
• Empathy, evil and justice at the Royal Institution
  (tags: empathy genetics hormones nurture psychology)
• Windows 8 to have account roaming via the cloud.
  (tags: windows identity data internet)
• A good overview of what today's GDP figures mean for the economy
  (tags: gdp economy uk)
• Vote now for the best sci-fi film never made (I voted for The Forever War)
  (tags: movies scifi)

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

You know, it's strange. I was almost certain their was a movie version of Stranger In A Strange Land with David Bowie in it. But, checking IMDB, apparently not. I wonder how I got that in my head.

[hravan.livejournal.com]

Youre making awfully good sense.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Does this film exist or am I just having brain farts as I get old?

possibly both

[hravan.livejournal.com]

why destroy the illusion? itg worked for gaiman

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

You're probably thinking of The Man Who Fell To Earth, which is kinda-sorta-a little bit like Stranger.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Gotcha.

Thanks! It's been bugging me all day!