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Mayank Austen Soofi's cover story in today's Lounge [the weekend supplement of Mint ] on how "the college of the elites" ...

Just a quick link to William Zinsser's charming essay on being chosen by Woody Allen to act in a couple of scenes in Stardust Memories ...

Dilip D'Souza has an absorbing profile of Kota, Rajasthan , the cram school capital of India. His comprehensive coverage includes a sect...

Remember The Economist story -- "He copied, but he's not a plagiarist" ? The Budapest Times reports : The rector of Budapes...

" If You Decide to Go Anyway " is a special page in a blog devoted to 100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School . [It's at Reas...

The latest to be outed is the President of Hungary Dr. Pál Schmitt, whose 1992 PhD thesis had 17 pages of stuff lifted from the work of a G...

In his comment, Ankur asks : ... is there a significant overlap between The Student's work and the work of Sharma and First Author? In...

David Perlmutter has an advice column in The Chronicle of Higher Education . His two recent entries have appeared in a new series on Good De...

Harvard professor turned Google engineer Matt Welsh has a great post on Do You Need a PhD? . Doing a PhD is certainly not for everybody, a...

Iskra Fileva at the Opinionator : Character and Its Discontents : What is character? Ordinarily, we envision character as a set of stable a...

First, go read Rahul's post -- he gives you a very good sense of how horribly badly Prof. Sharma has handled this issue. There seems...

At the end of the second paragraph, the authors of a 2011 paper entitled Biomimicked Superhydrophobic Polymeric and Carbon Surfaces in the ...

This SMBC cartoon will make your day if you have physicist friends ...

... The experience wasn’t simply about the easy pleasure of undeserved expertise. When the nice neuroscientists put the electrodes on me, th...

Since I've been seeing this term in various forums lately [sorry, no links!], it was good to see Ross McKenzie's post: Polywater: le...