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Carnegie Mellon Reels After Uber Lures Away Researchers (Mike Ramsey and Douglas Macmillan in WSJ ) Deepak Singh in The Atlantic : 'I...

Jena McGregor at The Washington Post has an interesting story summarizing recent research on the changes over the last 30 years in the comp...

If you set up a marketplace of outrage you have to expect everyone to enter it. Everyone now wants to say, ‘My feelings are more hurt than y...

"The 800" was our first car, like it probably was for most Indian car owners. It served us well for nearly 12 years, even while ac...

Atul Gawande: Slow Ideas: Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t? Rex at Savage Minds : How to explain anthrop...

FT 's Gillian Tett has a nice column on a recent study which found that "some 19 out of 20 women who sit in the “C-suite” – holdi...

Veenu Sandhu, Indulekha Aravind and Ranjita Ganesan in The Business Standard : Charity bazaar . "Indian businessmen and philanthropy ha...

Nature reports that a Company offers portable peer review : Author-pays service cuts down on redundant reviews. The concept comes from a co...

Cathy Davidson at HASTAC : If We Profs Don't Reform Higher Ed, We'll Be Re-Formed (and we won't like it) . If we profs can be r...

Chrostopher Shea in The Atlantic : The Data Vigilante . "Students aren’t the only ones cheating—some professors are, too. Uri Simonsohn...

Samanth Subramanian at India Ink : Happy 80th Birthday, Air India . Rukmini Banerjee of Pratham at Ideas for India : Why Indian education n...

Matt Honan in Wired : How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking Patrick Combs in FT : A man walks into the bank . "P...

Mohit Chandra, a partner at KPMG, pens an open letter to India's graduating classes . He talks about "five key attributes employers...

Tony Cookson: How similar are the markets for textbooks and drugs ? Charlie Stross: What Amazon's E-Book Strategy Means . Mihir Sh...

B. Aravind Kumar: A Question of Ratings . "As many as 44 universities were bracketed under ‘C'. [... It is likely that many of the ...

From Edison vs. Westinghouse: A Shocking Rivalry at Smithsonian [with a guest appearance by Nikola Tesla]: The concern at Edison [that t...

In Roger Lowenstein's NYTimes story , you'll find several familiar people, including Raj Rajaratnam and Mark Cuban, at the receivin...

... here's a remedy: El Empleo / The Employment by Santiago Grasso [Link via Marc Bousquet and CommonDreams.Org ]: And just in case t...

This boss knows the difference.

Nilay Patel has a good primer (possibly triggered by this recent NPR story on Intellectual Ventures and other such patent trolls): .....