A selfless fireman

Twelve-year-old Bipin Ganatra lost his elder brother Narendra to a freak fire on Diwali night. The young boy decided there and then that he would try and save the lives of as many people as he could from fires. Today, at the age of 59, he is not a professional fireman but has fought over 100 fires in the densely populated, chaotic city of Kolkata – working tirelessly to douse flames, rescue people and clean up debris.



http://www.thebetterindia.com/67277/volunteer-firefighter-bipin-ganatra-kolkata/?utm_source=The+Better+India+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2861646f31-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cd579275a4-2861646f31-74060141

What helped shape the way we talk about tech

Debates rage today about the risks and benefits of modern technology. But the origins of these concerns date back more than a century...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-molella/1900-worlds-fair-tech_b_11798128.html?utm_hp_ref=world

The people who study the meaning of nonsense

The strange world of wugs, wuwus and gutches can teach us how we learn to speak and where language came from in the first place.

WOW! Need to know this. Check out this link:


http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160906-the-people-who-study-the-meaning-of-nonsense

Hygge

There are five books on the subject out this autumn:

The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking (subtitled “The Danish way to live well”) - out last week

The Book of Hygge by Louisa Thomsen Brits (subtitled “The Danish art of living well”) - out last month

The Art of Hygge - coming out later this week

A Celebration of Simple Pleasures
&
Living the Danish Way  - both out next month


So what is hygge - pronounced hue-guh?


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/04/hunting-for-hygge-a-new-ingredient-in-denmarks-recipe-for-happiness

Letter reaches its destination by a hand-drawn map

Rebecca Cathrine Kaadu Ostenfeld was reportedly surprised when a letter was delivered to the horse farm where she lives with her husband and three children near Búðardalur in the west of Iceland.

Instead of a postal address or a recipient's name, the sender had drawn a map of where they believed the farm to be, together with the following, in English:

"Country: Iceland. City: Búðardalur. Name: A horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and three kids and a lot of sheep!"

The sender had also added a further clue to the intended recipient: "the Danish woman works in a supermarket in Búðardalur."



http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37233913

App developers from the Dharavi slum, Mumbai (Bombay)

Filmmaker Nawneet Ranjan is using PCs and online tutorials to create a new generation of coders in India’s largest slum, Dharavi.

Over the last two-and-a-half years, children trained by Ranjan have developed more than eight apps to tackle a range of social problems. These include apps that address child labour, domestic violence, education of the girl child, and women’s health and well-being.



http://www.thebetterindia.com/66707/dharavi-diary-digital-india-intel-ekuka/?utm_source=The+Better+India+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5fcb645805-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cd579275a4-5fcb645805-74060141

32 years at McDonald’s

When Freia David began working at McDonald’s through an innovative program to place adults with cognitive disabilities in community jobs, her mother worried. What if the work was too hard? What if she didn’t fit in?

But, for the next 32 years, five days a week, Freia, who has Down Syndrome, spent the lunch rush frying, salting, and boxing fries at the Needham McDonald’s, always arriving an hour early, sometimes dancing in place before the stainless steel Frymaster. On Saturdays, she returns with her mother to eat lunch and see friends, day-off visits filled with hugs and high-fives.

When it was time for her to go, McDonald's sent her off in style...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2016/08/29/retire/qVU7HV3vbnS65kjqbeZwgI/story.html