- Jamestown Colony cannibalism story; this has been all over, but you know how I love my early settler drama.
- The fabulous Annalee Newitz, one of the smartest people around, has a shiny new book out, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. This piece at io9 is a great teaser for it.
- How entrepreneurs come up with ideas.
- Ten steps for being a grown-up from Kelly Williams Brown. I need to get better at three.
- What does science tell us about how we'd use superpowers; good or evil?
- Loved this interview with Melina Marchetta on heroines: "Whichever way you turn, female characterisation is a minefield. Male characters tend to get away with so much more. I loved writing Jonah Griggs (from Jellicoe) but Jonah killed his father, bashes up Ben and stomps on his fingers, shoves Taylor up against the wall in rage, yet I rarely read a negative comment about him as a character. Evanjalin in FotRock, on the other hand, has been criticised many a time and called manipulative and a liar. I think we are so much tougher on our female characters." (via Sarah)
- Good piece at Vulture with some script excerpts that show why Shane Black became one of Hollywood's favorite screenwriters.
- A truly must-read post from Kelly Barnhill: "The only reviews that matter."
- Another one that's already been everywhere, but which I'm sharing in case you somehow missed it. Maureen Johnson, brilliant human, launched the #coverflip earlier this week, asking readers to reimagine covers if the author's gender was flipped. The results are a must read and see. (See also: Amanda Hocking's reaction post.)
- Photos of abandoned Tunisian Star Wars sets.