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Performance poet and writer Hannah Chutzpah asked on Twitter: What are the technical terms, in your field, for 'dunno'? In medici...

From this story from the UK: Survey results published by YouGov on 15 February found that only being an author or a librarian was more att...

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

It's interesting and all , but is it really the case that "Indians are beginning to laugh at ourselves"?

Apparently, you can buy this piece of 'music' for $0.99 at the iTunes store. Samuel McNerney muses on the reasons why people migh...

Ellen Laird in The Chronicle of Higher Education : Prime Suspect, Second Row Center . "[N]ow a suspected ax murderer was one of my stud...

The fiasco is what happened after NASA tried to hype a recent paper on bacteria that thrive on arsenic. The anatomy is the result of two exc...

From the way the chapter in Superfreakonomics dealing with global warming is being fisked, Steven Levitt's reputation as an academic ap...

... here's today's lesson : Women who spray testosterone on their stomach to raise their sex drive may not see much benefit — unles...