Monday Link Roundup!

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Scientists in India are using math to analyze om

Like the European man found in China, now they have found the skeleton of an African man, born in Tunisia and buried in Ipswich in the 13th Century.

Steampunk is cool. So are vampires. And now, steampunk vampires!

Japan's most decrepit dormitory.

National Geographic takes on sleep.

From the Cat Corner, a YouTube video of a cat grooming a fox.

And lastly, for your humor sign off, The Six People You've Never Heard of Who Probably Saved Your Life.

Monday Link Roundup!

I know I haven't been posting much, I've been fighting a cold. However, there is no sickness dire enough to keep me from giving you your Monday Link Roundup!

What do you get when you combine Alan Moore, the Gorillaz and John Dee? Opera, of course!

A good argument for cinematic sci-fi television. The special effects technology we have is mindblowing, I'm sure HBO or AMC could come up with a captivating series with the same production values as Rome or Mad Men. Also, the author makes a wonderful case for turning one of my favorite graphic novels, Transmetropolitan, into TV.

A very fascinating article about oxytocin & trust.

Was the father of calculus Newton or Leibniz? A new scholar suggests he might have been Indian!.

Vampire Movies That Suck. Just what it says on the box!

Shameless promo: my sister is a painter (and, I think, a very good one). She has the goal to complete 100 (awesome) paintings in one year. She's blogging about it, and I highly recommend subscribing to her blog, too.

And for your humor sign off, The Seven Most Disastrous Typos of All Time.

Monday Link Roundup!

An amusing distraction from your Monday, I bring you the weekly Link Roundup!

From Australia, an object lesson on the value of a good proofreader.

The American Library Association has issued their list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2009. This is the first I've heard of ttyl, but now I'm interested to read it. Good to see the old standbys are still on the list!

Not only has Peter Brett successfully published a novel he wrote on his mobile phone while commuting, there's now a movie deal!

And, as a writer of vampire stories, I feel as though I ought to toss in a link or two about vampires. Here's a good one about trees and plants reputed throughout folklore to have vampire-repelling properties.

I said last week I'd give ninjas!

Happy Monday!

Monday Link Roundup!

A pleasant distraction from your Monday, I bring you my weekly Link Roundup: a collection of interesting, informative or humorous pieces I've picked up during my trawl through the Internet!

This week, we have:

Can one learn to be lucky? This article from the Guardian suggests that luck is largely a matter of being observant, combined with a positive attitude.

The Seven States of Facebook. Apparently, interconnectedness still happens in sub-network shapes.

Ancient graves are nothing new, but this 2,000 year old grave in Mongolia is made interesting because a man with Western European ancestry. Whoever he was, he certainly must have had an interesting story to tell.

Cultural imperialism can manifest in odd ways, such as is described in this New York Times article on the Americanization of mental illness.

And from the Better Living Through Science Department, a drug discovered in the soil of Easter Island may possibly provide the key to curing Alzheimer's.

Five Things You Didn't Know About Pirates. I'll do ninjas next week, I promise.

Under the heading "Nifty Stuff People Do" comes this article about rice field art in Japan. Quite lovely!

And lastly, for your humor sign off, an article from Cracked.com about Six Spectacularly Bad Ideas From History's Greatest Geniuses". Of course Tesla's on the list!