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Rebecca Mead's profile of Timothy Ferriss, author of books such as "The 4-hour Workweek", is worth reading just for its disda...

And they are willing to take appropriate steps [via Dheeraj Sanghi ] to get more women and more non-engineers in the next incoming cohort:...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has what Mark Liberman calls "a chemical version of the classic ' Who's on First? ' sk...

LynNell Hancock in the Smithsonian : Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? There are no mandated standardized tests in Finland, apar...

Back in 2008, a couple of IIT-M dudes created a dating site for IIT/IIM students and graduates just for a day -- the April Fools' Day ....

This boss knows the difference.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant : One element of Samsung's defense strategy is interesting enough that I wanted to report on it befor...

In his post on gossip , anthropologist Kerim Friedman made this observation: .. [W]hile gossip can play [a role] in policing community b...

[Via Tarunabh Khaitan at Law and Other Things ]: Delhi University has a digital archive of its off-copyright books. Browsing through it, I...

... [University of Virginia's David F. Feldon] and his colleagues gathered two sets of research proposals from 95 beginning graduate stu...

The country's administrators tend to judge the quality of scientific research solely by journal impact factors, Wang says. Articles publ...

A lot of Asians are not marrying later. They are not marrying at all. Almost a third of Japanese women in their early 30s are unmarried ... ...

Richard J. Lipton's blog was where the action was last year when Deolalikar announced he had a proof of arguably the most important prob...

The Supreme Court has spoken : Other Backward Classes (OBC) students will qualify for admissions if they have 10 % less marks than the el...

Nilay Patel has a good primer (possibly triggered by this recent NPR story on Intellectual Ventures and other such patent trolls): .....