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Mohit Chandra, a partner at KPMG, pens an open letter to India's graduating classes . He talks about "five key attributes employers...

... to set up a recruitment office (or something like that). At IIT Kanpur, ... where about 350 professors are employed, about one-third of...

"Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman," says Hans Rosling in this fabulous TED talk: Religions and B...

Charles Simic in NYRB : Why I Still Write Poetry . Simic had me hooked right in the first paragraph: When my mother was very old and in a n...

Just a quick note to link to the Crooked Timber post and comments thread on how European universities handle the issue of academic spousal...

John Scalzi says : I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word...

From the ever reliable Onion News Network: Romney To Travel Back In Time To Kill Liberal Versions Of Himself . [Make sure you watch the tw...

Teddy Wayne in New Yorker : I’m an Article About the Internet That You Repost on the Internet : What will Mark Zuckerberg do next? Who care...

In the New England Journal of Medicine : Two Hundred Years of Surgery . A breezy -- but pain-filled! -- survey of the developments in surgic...

[ Update : Edited out the old title and a sentence in the post.] * * * In a post about her Stanford education , Lakshmi Saligram has a sho...

A quick follow-up to this post on Delhi University's plans for offering a variety of new programs, including one -- the meta-university...

Drop everything and read this fabulous personal-political narrative by Saba Dewan at Kafila about women's fight for equality at St. Ste...

The institution's leadership went after Dr. Animesh Roy in 2009 for blowing the whistle on scientific misconduct. You have to read The T...

The first episode of the show was devoted to selective abortion of female foetuses. Two bloggers I respect recommend it highly. Here is Ind...

Natasha Mhatre at Talking Pictures : Tree crickets break the rules, sort of . On her recent work at the intersection of biology, evolution,...