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I liked the coverage in The Guardian and The Chronicle . Here's the full list at the Improbable Research website. The Chronicle f...

The Smithsonian magazine features a profile -- by Julie Des Jardins -- that "[examines] the story of [Curie's] story—how she liv...

The much awaited Bhatnagar Prizes for 2011 were announced yesterday, and it is absolutely thrilling to see my colleague and friend Prof. U. ...

Atul Gawande does it again , with an awesome essay that weaves in keen observations on coaching in sports and music with his novel experimen...

In Roger Lowenstein's NYTimes story , you'll find several familiar people, including Raj Rajaratnam and Mark Cuban, at the receivin...

Alina Tugend offers a nice overview of recent research on optimism and pessimism . The verdict? "... Moderate optimism may be good for...

The Chronicle has a profile of Prof. Ruth Simmons who will be stepping down as President of Brown University at the end of this academic y...

His fascinating article in NYTimes is about the importance of key character traits (such as grit, self-control, curiosity, and optimism), ...

In an interview published in The Telegraph , Prof. Sen talks quite extensively about the progress towards the creation of Nalanda University...

And this one is big. Really, Really Big. It's called A central Central University -- "the Unofficial Blog of the VC, University ...

ToI is there to cover it .

In his round up of recent misconduct cases -- including those of Bruno Frey and Marc Hauser -- Andrew Gelman offers this comment by E. J. W...

Anne Murphy Paul in NYTimes : The Trouble With Homework : Fortunately, research is available to help parents, teachers and school administr...

That's a far lovelier phrase than 'self-plagiarism,' 'duplicate publication', or 'concurrent publications.' And...

Must read article of the month: Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist by George Monbiot. Dheeraj Sanghi has a series of p...