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After James Franco, Tom Hanks is now writing fiction, and getting straight into .@newyorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/alan-bean-plus-four …
Sweet story about Indian Science: Sugarcane and Janaki Ammal - The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article6503564.ece …
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Looks like it's finally going to be Bengaluru. Major victory for the retroflex liquid consonant. http://www.bangaloremirror.com/Bangalore/Others/Bangalore-has-now-got-Bengaluru-ed/articleshow/44864060.cms …
'Hindi padhne wale pyaar nahin karte kya?’ My piece for OPEN on a crop of young Hindi writers: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/books/the-new-heroes-of-mba-lit …
Never mind the people. "Ebola threatens chocolate". http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/ebola-chocolate-industry-africa-effects-111809.html …
Thoughtful Ebola diary from Paul Farmer, back from Liberia where he was with a group of physicians: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n20/paul-farmer/diary …
Love this proof my liberal arts students found for 1+2+3+4+3+2+1=4^2. (Count the squares vertically.) pic.twitter.com/P3mp9fgnVs
Love it RT @MarkHaselgrove I enjoyed this so much this morning that I'm going to post it again: http://www.pointerpointer.com
Some brilliant writing around the Jayalalithaa trial. Desperately want to give shake-hand to writer. https://in.news.yahoo.com/i-will-never-forget-translating-tamizhnattu-s-favourite-lady-044735856.html …
"[Booker]drives publshrs mad w/hope,bksellers mad w/greed,judges mad w/power,winners mad w/pride,&losers mad w/ envy" http://www.lrb.co.uk/v09/n20/julian-barnes/diary …
Today is World Standards Day. Except in the US, which celebrates it on the 23rd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Standards_Day …
Happy Ada Lovelace Day! http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=298 …
Science explains why mozzarella is the perfect pizza cheese. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/scientists-explain-why-nobody-puts-cheddar-on-pizza/381356/ … By @megangarber
Do read this Charlie Brooker column on the internet's language of praise. http://gu.com/p/427mt/tw
A look a the life of one child rescued by #KailashSatyarthi and #BachpanBachaoAndolan http://fountainink.in/?p=4849&all=1 #NobelPeacePrize
Shivarama Karanth, born this day 112 years ago, was the greatest person I have met. I wrote about him here: http://ramachandraguha.in/archives/in-the-presence-of-greatness-the-telegraph.html …
RT @tomstandage: Rome? Britain? America? Mere blips. The world's largest economies for the past 2,000 years: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21623758-chinas-back …
"Archaeology is like search and rescue except everyone’s been dead for thousands of years so there’s no rush.” http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/09/cave-exploring-snake-robot-gets-inspiration-from-sidewinders/ …
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