Maud got a chance to chat with literary hero A.L. Kennedy and finds her eminently approachable. (In fact, I will confess that even now, fiftysomething interviews into Segundo, I still get butterflies in my stomach.)

New Scientist: “Women may be able to tell whether a man is child-friendly simply by looking at his face – and this could influence how attractive they find him as a potential long-term partner. But for a spring fling or a summer love, women seek men with high levels of testosterone who don’t care much for children.”

Physorg: “U.S. psychologists say they’ve found that handling a gun creates a hormonal reaction in men that can prime them for aggression.”

Over at Mr. Wickett’s, the hardest working man in litblog business has been offering some serious coverage of Reading the World.