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... right here in India! It does sound wonderful, but it also sounds impossible, no? In today's Business Standard, T.C.A. Srinivasa-Rag...

There have been reports about a couple of students taking their own lives in IIT-B and IIT-K. Among many blog reactions, Mridula's post ...

I like it for a lot of my routine work; I even link to articles on common things. But, once you consider people and things that are not quit...

Yesterday's Guardian reported about the first surgeries to be performed on people with a certain kind of paralysis -- caused by injuri...

We just saw how science changed from an individual enterprise to a group -- make that a large group -- enterprise. Now, through Pharyngu...

D. Balasubramanian, an ex-Director of CCMB and currently with L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (both in Hyderabad), has a regular, long-running ...

... on the issue of caste based reservation of 'seats' in privately funded professional colleges that take no aid or help from the g...

Two years ago, there was quite a bit of excitement when primate research revealed that orangutans have 'culture' using a very intere...

Americans celebrated Thanksgiving Day a week ago, and combined it with the weekend to have a long weekend of family gettogethers, food and f...

... and his theory of general relativity, which he published in the year 1915, some 10 years after his publication of his paper on special ...

Early this year, Freakonomics was published [that link is to the blog-cum-website of the authors]. Tim Harford has a follow-up act in his r...

Read this . [Via slashdot ].   It's hilarious, alright. But is it true? Are there sound waves that the younger people -- under 20 -- hea...

... at 200 dollars! , says this report. [Scroll down to the update]. Now we have a free market evaluation of the utility of this machine. T...

Plagiarism in the main (newspaper and magazine) pages of the Hindu? I would have laughed at any such suggestion. Nina presents a strong case...

Quite a few things appeared today. Since I don't have the time, I will just list them here: A nice article in the New York Times by D...