Travel
The first Indian to cross the Gobi desert - http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-achiever-sucheta-kadethankar-first-indian-to-cross-the-gobi-desert/20111007.htm
Psychology
Social living is not a prerequisite for social learning , at least for red-footed tortoises - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/10/05/cold-blooded-cognition-social-cognition-in-a-non-social-reptile/
Sociology
Steven Pinker on the decline of violence - http://thebrowser.com/interviews/steven-pinker-on-decline-violence
Science
They dissolved their Nobel prizes - http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story?f=5500502&ft=1
The Wick Effect explains Spontaneous Human Combustion - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2011/10/12/burn-baby-burn-understanding-the-wick-effect/
Literature
Review of new book about John Hanning Speke and Richard Francis Burton, the men who searched for the source of the Nile, among other things - http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article791521.ece
General
Christopher Hitchens recommends books to an 8 year old - http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/mason-crumpacker-and-the-hitchens-reading-list/
Animals
World's deepest known animal discovered - http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/13-deepest-animal-unearthed
Films
Kees van Dijkhuizen's YouTube feed - http://www.youtube.com/user/keesvdijkhuizen
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