Category: Daily Links

A guide to dealing with human interaction, as written by someone with Asperger’s to help fellow-sufferers.

via Benn loxo du taccu: ‘A weekly blog dedicated to 78rpm recordings of folkloric and vernacular music from around the world.’

Interesting, if not exactly conclusive: ‘If sexual orientation is biological, are the traits that make people seem gay innate, too? The new research on everything from voice pitch to hair whorl.’

‘FAMED for its restorative powers, it now seems that laughter also helps breast milk to fight skin allergies. Breastfed babies with eczema experienced milder symptoms if their mothers laughed hours before feeding them’

via the Beagle Project Blog: the sketchbooks of Conrad Martens who travelled, amongst other places, on the Beagle. He’s better at landscapes and plants than people and animals; some of them are lovely.

via New Scientist, computer simulations of fire and water. We’re all pretty blasé about computer graphics these days, but I found these seriously impressive.