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In a letter in the latest issue of Curent Science , Prof. Ramasesha and Prof. Diptiman Sen (both from IISc), present a strong case against t...

Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi of the Department of Computer Science at IIT-K has been blogging for a while, but I discovered his blog just yesterday...

Killugudi Jayaraman at The Great Beyond [a Nature.com blog]: Indian government competition for better skin whiteners draws fire . Good to...

Watson would be a potent and clever companion as we made our rounds. But the complaints I hear from patients, family and friends are never ...

Must-see: BBC's Audio Slideshow: Beautiful Science [hat tip: Dilip D'Souza ]. Must-read: Joshua Foer on Secrets of a Mind Gamer --...

Just a quick note to alert you all to the links posted in the comments section of yesterday's post. This forum thread is a classic -...

This and this should be added to this compilation of cartoons about libertarianism. That's all.

Altogether, IITs have a sanctioned strength of 4,712 teaching posts, but only 3,148 are filled. The vacacny stands at 1,564 posts. IIMs have...

They are written poorly. They get the recipient's fields and sub-fields wrong, sometimes horribly wrong. They contain boilerplate in a p...

Ken Jennings in Slate : My Puny Human Brain . Brad Rutter at WSJ Blogs: Ideas Market : Why I Lost to Watson .

Here . Before he was famous, before he painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, before he invented the helicopter, before he drew the mos...

It all started less than a week ago, when a German newspaper outed a bunch of instances of plagiarism in the PhD thesis of Karl-Theodor zu G...

For scarce elements it may also mean to better manage their consumption. Crucial is to reuse and recycle where possible. The use of rare ear...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young Indian-American in possession of some years’ experience of India must be in want of a bo...

This is a fascinating account -- no, make that a riveting account -- of how a 'security firm' had "its servers broken into, i...