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In a report in yesterday's Hindu (in its Karnataka pages), quoted J. Shashidhar Prasad, Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore, as sayin...

Today's Economic Times had a story by Urmi Goswami about the progress in 'upgrading' of seven engineering colleges to the IIT s...

... on the "central role of control groups in causal inference". Gary King has a great (but quite short) post on how he used the ...

Via Pharyngula : Dan Drezner, an acadmic who also has an A-list blog, is joining Tufts next year. Well, what is so great about it? Earli...

Since we talked recently about university endowments, and gifts from alumni and philanthropists, let's start with the news that Tufts U...

With a four-year old at home, we have pretty much stopped watching TV ("Hey! You don't allow me to watch Power Rangers, and how com...

In yet another surprising development -- NOT! -- the faculty pages of IIPM are yet to be changed from where they were when we took a look at...

This is just a follow up on these two posts . In the first, I wrote about how metallurgists have been confused with meteorologists ("...

Well, it's that time of the year, when the Times of London publishes its university rankings. This is the second year in a row. First go...

Well, this seond move by CBSE is also interesting. It has instituted a scholarship scheme for its 1050 top students. There is quite a bit o...

Consider this pretty general question: Can the 'chooser' of a certain action be a different entity from the 'implementer' of...

I was just clearing up some old stuff, and I discovered this crazy, amazing-but-true kind of news from three years ago. It is an old Reuters...

The 12th edition of SciAn Melt is up. Aswin does a great job of aggregating (and commenting on) science oriented blog posts by the desi blo...

Siddharth Narrain's interview of Wajahat Habibullah, the chief of the Central Information Commission, appeared in the Hindu today. He s...

Can you believe a Nobel winner is teaching an undergraduate physics course for nonscientists? Further, he uses some really cool physics simu...