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AA Destroying The Social Lives Of Thousands Of Once-Fun Americans Click through to Onion if the embed doesn't work. Related, and al...

After the recent announcement of the Infosys Prizes, N.R.Narayana Murthy (Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys) was interviewed by Gopal Raj ...

That chemist is Ashutosh Jogalekar (aka Wavefunction ). An excerpt from his review : So how does one do high-quality research in a resource...

Selva tweets : Sampling of home library - Book 1: "One hundred years of solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The novel has one of...

Voices, the IISc Newsletter : Snake Catchers of IISc . Aditya Sinha, Editor-in-Chief, The New Indian Express : Plagiarise and Be Damned : A...

Update 2 (29 October 2010): Just noticed this afternoon that the website now has a new page featuring a citation, biographical sketch and ...

The Prizes have been announced . First of all, congratulations to the winners! Three things that are noteworthy about this year's Pri...

Ram Guha's latest HT column -- That Family Feeling -- is about the wide gulf between Nehru's views and those of the ruling Gandh...

Mark Liberman at Language Log : Merle Haggard's ex-wives . Has some great examples of hilarity produced by the absence of the final seri...

Ashutosh Jogalekar: Ethics and Indian Science . Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing : The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator! Dave Marcu...

While we are at it, here's "Do Re Mi" at a train station in Belgium (YouTube seems to have tons of these improvs from all ove...

Five Great Men Who Built Their Careers on Plagiarism over at Cracked.com . The article uses incendiary language that goes way over the top...

... shouldn't that fact be disclosed -- especially if the study goes on to claim that "the [Pohang Iron and Steel Company] project...

This one is from Latha Jishnu in Down To Earth . Money quote: It transpires that the academies held just one meeting, on June 1, before th...

... a senior professor at IIT-KGP appears to have chosen some shady ways to augment his income : [Amit Kumar Ghos], a senior professor at t...