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Susannah Locke in Vox.com : 15 ways to tell if that science news story is hogwash The excellent chart ... offers " A Rough Guide to S...

This hilarious piece of pop science "news" deserves its place right at the top because it sets the right tone for what comes next:...

Here's the latest hype from Rutgers: Indian Graduates in U.S. are Ready to Return to India : Faculty shortages at Indian universities c...

In the bitter fight over "Oxford University's professorial seat in poetry", for which elections were held recently, do you wan...

... includes ridicule. Look at the headlines: $10 laptop proves to be a damp squib (Times of India): "... the computing device is 10 ...

That's the message in the latest Outlook cover story . While reading it, it appears to me that people -- even those who should know bet...

May be not dead, but close. Here's Fake Steve Jobs [via Wayan Vota's OLPC News ] pouring scorn and ridicule on media outlets for hy...

Treating our personalities as products reflects an increasingly competitive society in which the best way to stand out is to develop an enga...

Or, "Top 10 delusions of authors who dish out management fiction wisdom". Check this out: Of 35 "Excellent" compani...

Atanu Dey pans the PanIIT meet: They took the stage for the next hour or so (but seemed interminable) congratulating each other on the “gr...

Santosh Desai does to the PanIIM folks what President Kalam did to those of PanIIT: prick their balloons. Except that Desai didn't do...

You ought to read Stephen Hall's NYTimes piece presenting a nuanced analysis of the correlation between a person's height and his/...

My own comment on an earlier post in this blog led to my views being sought a while ago on the almost-imminent change in the name of this g...

After Silvia Nasar and David Gruber trashed   Prof. Yau 's reputation, Dennis Overbye tries to restore some of it in his article in ...

Another title: Computational Materials Design: Is this some mega-hype, or are our jobs really in danger? From the MIT news release : Th...

The rankings are just out: top 100 engineering colleges and top 25 medical colleges . The cover story is here , and the methodology is desc...

Madhukar Shukla gives this year's B-school ranking by Business Today something it deserves: a thorough fisking . Check it out.

... the result was this software : This is the fourth generation knowledge transfer system which combines the gurukul system of education ...

High-profile bloggers give their answers. Here . I found two that are worth quoting here. Here's the first: Oh for sure, it's this...