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Isn't that a brilliant metaphor for the academies' report on GM crops? Apparently, it's a popular Hindi saying, and I found i...

Stephen Hsu on the advantages of attending an elite university . And a follow-up Wired on 7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in Col...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and four nonprofit education organizations are beginning an...

At the cutting edge of science, it is not uncommon to find examples of scientists who had the first glimpse of an important discovery, didn...

Let's start with an excerpt from D. Balasubramanian's review : Not every chapter in [ Limitless Ladder ] reads positive. His comme...

Alternate Title: How Thomson Reuters's Essential Science Indicators was fooled into naming someone "Rising Star in Computer Scienc...

CNR joined IIT-K in April 1963 as an associate professor. Here are a few snippets from Limitless Ladder about IIT-K's toddler years: T...

"A Life in Chemistry," is the subtitle of CNR's autobiography. And he makes it amply clear that he would like his book to be ...

Starting today, I hope to have a bunch of posts built around Prof. C.N.R. Rao's autobiography, Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in...

See the update at the end. * * * According to Charu Sudan Kasturi's story in HT , plagiarism by Ashok Kumar & his students is not...

One more excerpt from the same article we saw in the previous post -- Unraveling Tenure at MIT -- about that great institution's approa...

If you ever wondered about what it takes to get tenure at MIT, this should interest you: Unraveling Tenure , a report at The Tech that ...

Do read this gripping story from Brendan Maher in Nature -- Research Integrity: Sabotage! . It's about a post-doc who, by his own co...

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We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismount it in dry-dock and reconstruct it fr...