Steven Levy | Wired | 17 October 2012 Visit to the "beating heart of the digital age". Server farm in North Carolina. "This is what makes Google Google: Thousands of fiber miles, thousands of servers that, in aggregate, add up to the mother of all clouds" Comments Lee Billings | Centauri Dreams | 16 October 2012 After the discovery of a new planet outside our solar system. "Among the planet-hunters, the question is no longer whether life exists elsewhere in the universe, but rather how far removed the next-nearest living world might be" Comments John Kay | John Kay/FT | 17 October 2012 Concise skewering of big mergers. "These commercial decisions often reflect policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy. Doing the deal is what matters. Justification comes afterwards." But bigger does not equal stronger Comments James Wood | New Yorker | 15 October 2012 The Book of Common Prayer is 350 years old. Mostly written by Thomas Cranmer, who translated and simplified the Sarum Missal. Recognised now as great work of literature. Gave us "moveable feast", "vile body", marriage service Comments Paul Gionfriddo | Washington Post | 15 October 2012 Mea culpa from Connecticut legislator. Thirty years ago he backed programmes to clear patients out of mental hospitals, shifting their care to poorly resourced community and school programmes. Bad idea. As his son's life shows Comments Masha Gessen | IHT | 15 October 2012 Before Felix Baumgartner there was Yakov Solodovnik, the first man to parachute from the stratosphere. He jumped from more than 10,000 metres in 1939. Preparations were hasty, equipment unreliable, problems various. But he made it Comments | 
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