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What a classy response from Prof. Rashid Khalidi : We did ask Mr. Khalidi whether he wanted to respond to the [McCain] campaign charges ag...

Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India is a collection of (auto)biographical essays of about 100 women scientists who have...

Maybe the most irrational tendency of them all is our belief that we are rational! -- Dan Ariely

From a series named "Trying Times": this one fits the topic well, but this one is hilarious. New Yorker rocks! * * * On the o...

Researchers say the Bee Gees song, from the 1977 hit movie “Saturday Night Fever,” offers almost the perfect pace for performing chest compr...

While searching for something else, Animesh finds an outfit called Jago Party which, from what appears on the first page, takes a hard lin...

Anant wonders what's with the Indian blogosphere and the US election . Pipa wants Sarah Palin to read Alison Davis's article: Frui...

Over at Lab Rats , Mint science reporter Jacob Koshy asks: Is the Indian Science Congress " a waste of time "? He links to this ...

Michael Nielsen looks at the most remarkable graph in the history of sport to show why Don Bradman is so truly, so fantastically special. ...

Perils of Web 2.0 : Virtual hubby gets murdered in Second Life. [via Fabio Rojas ]. Very quick advice for students applying to graduate sc...

Doctorate degree at the age of 91 . Wow! Kenneth Chang: Man Who Set Stage for a Nobel Now Lives a Life Outside Science [Thanks to Pipa fo...

Women in Science and Technology (WIST) is the title of a day-long event at the PanIIT-2008 this December. [Thanks to Prof. Neelima Gupte , ...

Some 5+ years after mouthing all those lies to the world (at least to the UN) for a horrible war in Iraq, Colin Powell redeems himself. Not ...

Let me be frank: In the blogospheric comments about Paul Krugman's Nobel, this made me wince: Who are the big losers ? Avinash Dixit ...

The three science academies of the country have issued a position paper entitled Restructuring Post-School Science Teaching Programmes ( pd...