Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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Alex Tabarrok finds a lesson on sampling errors in Elizabeth Pisani's Wisdom of Whores.

Whatever happened to our President's request for an all-girls IIT at Amravati, her (former) constituency? Here's an update with an interesting spin on what's going on.

A Bihar story from BBC: Termites feast on trader's money. Hat tip: iisc life, who pointed out recently that anarchism outbreak is an anagram for Soumen Chakrabarti!

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:22 PM, June 10, 2008

    Will it have only women on the faculty ?

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  2. Anonymous7:15 PM, June 11, 2008

    why not a women-only IISc?

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  3. Anonymous5:36 AM, June 13, 2008

    Jeez -- did the president go to any kind of school?

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