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In sharing his memories of a friend who passed away recently, Swarup writes about his own father's tenure as the Head Master of a villa...

While it has always been nice to see people becoming "followers" of this blog using the "Friend Connect" feature in the ...

B. Aravind Kumar: A Question of Ratings . "As many as 44 universities were bracketed under ‘C'. [... It is likely that many of the ...

A chilling profile of David Headley (the guy who scouted the targets of 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai) by ProPublica's Sebastian Rotell...

From Cosma Shalizi's fable on Pareto optimality and economic efficiency : And so, in yet another triumph, the market mechanism has all...

A neat video on the Montessori method: Superwoman was already here! [via Christopher Shea ] Errol Morris: The Umbrella Man : "On the ...

Jazz loving cows : Link via the wonderful The Kid Should See This , where you'll find this longer version .

A good catch by commenter Raj : Candidates appearing for JEE prepare either through “self study” or through “specialized teaching (other)”...

Just skimmed through the report on JEE-2011 . It has all kinds of sociological data (though not fine-grained enough for us to perform our ow...

In an interesting move, the IITs have come together to create a website for the entire system . And they have made a good start by populatin...

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if ...

Female Science Professor in The Chronicle : Can Well-Behaved Women Make (Academic) History? : ... [In responding to sexist slights] my ten...

I'm not sure how many will agree with this rant about where some of the university libraries (in this specific case, it's the one i...

It's neither social nor a graph . So argues Maciej Ceglowski, founder of Pinboard.com . It's heavygoing at first, but patience pays!...

Jon Stewart's The Daily Show tackles the economics of prejudice against ugly people . The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p...