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The former ISRO chief has been banned (along with three of his colleagues) from holding any government position -- apparently as a punishmen...

We Hindus may believe in an infinity of lifetimes, but we maximize our welfare in this one, just like everyone else. -- Jagdish Bhagwati: T...

Scott Dalrymple has a Gotcha Test for Aspiring Deans which is a lot of fun -- try it even if you don't have any deanly aspirations. A...

A very, very moving piece by Emily Rapp on parenting a child who she knows will likely die before his third birthday. The mothers and fat...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced the winners of its International Early Career Awards, meant for (non-US) researchers who ...

Here's an excerpt from David Cyranoski's article in Nature : [In his second big case, in mid-2010, the] editor-in-chief of a journ...

A terrific piece , according to Paul Krugman . Some of the principles need not be specific to economics; an example: Principle 1: Credenti...

In the U.S., an engineer can do a literature course and earn credits. Why can't an Electrical Engineer in IIT do an elective in the huma...

Apparently, that's something that someone at Quora was terribly interested in , and a revealing tell-all happens. Here's a sample: ...

In the latest in his series of articles on what psychological research can tell us about student learning, he writes about metacognition wi...

The scamsters targeted one of India's most high-profile exams: the national entrance exam for admissions to PG programs in medical colle...

The subtitle -- It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be -- is a little cryptic, but these early paragraphs present a good summary of ...

At The Atlantic :"The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence." Decades a...

From here : Internet rescue camps in South Korea and China try to save kids addicted to the screen. Writer friends of mine pay good money t...

You read one, you've read them all! Amitabh Sinha reports : ... freeing the lab from bureaucratic red tape has been a refrain down the ...