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Robert Mankoff in New Yorker : Tiger Mother and the Cartoon Arms Race . "Inspired" by Amy Chua's 'Chinese Mother vs. Weste...

The journal Science has an article by John Bohannon on measuring an individual scientist's fame and influence using "a data set b...

An important event in Bangalore during this period was the celebration of the centenary of the great visionary, Sir M. Visveswaraya. Every f...

File a lawsuit complaining of criminal defamation [Via Orgtheory.net ]. The defendant in this case, Prof. Joseph Weiler, Editor-in-Chief...

... for the Indian Women Scientists Association to give the two prominent places in the Inaugural Session of its All India Meeting of Women...

Mobile Number Portability was introduced recently in Haryana. Among the early trends reported by Thomas K. Thomas, this caught my eye: Ide...

I got this awesome picture from the Flowing Data post entitled Map of Scientific Collaboration between Researchers ; the original work by...

Steven Blau weighs in on the matter over at Physics Today Blogs [ Update : I think the real value in Blau's piece is in the link to an...

Remember the first DST-P&G Challenge of the Month ? The results are not officially out, but it is rumored that one of the "solution...

He wonders why "we hardly see fiction about present-day rural India either written in English or translated into English?" Seen ...

Today, the Indian state seems particularly inept at generating the kind of knowledge it requires as it tries to realize its global aspiratio...

It turns out that the great MIT economist was influential in the creation of one of the earliest and most influential hedge funds. Launched ...

... here's a link: Journal of Universal Rejection [Via Retraction Watch where you can find an interview of the journal's editor Ca...

Jacopo della Quercia at Cracked.com : 5 Ridiculous Things You Probably Believe About Islam . Scicurious at Neurotic Physiology : Friday Wei...

When Cleavage is a Bad Thing . Written by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky over at Cocktail Party Physics , that post discusses a recent Nature Mater...