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A couple more links that reached me through my Google Reader stream recently: David Streitfeld in NYTimes : The Best Book Reviews Money Can...

Les Blanches Exotiques , a mono-themed Tumblr blog, is getting some serious attention and links . Especially for this post: The beautiful...

A bunch of links on academic cheating at different levels. We already saw this article about the Shadow Scholar, the guy who earned a livi...

Another book on how to write; this time, a lot. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia is ...

Simon Rich in the New Yorker : Unprotected . Scott Barry Kaufman: Brain Stimulation Makes the 'Impossible Problem' Solvable . Jame...

Joern Fischer: Why we need a new culture of science . He's also a co-author of a piece titled Academia’s obsession with quantity Steph...

How to go about prolific publishing in academia? If prolific writing can be learnt through profligate reading, here is a book on the topic: ...

A couple of weeks ago, Mat Honan wrote a must-read post for those of us who love this version of living dangerously: How Apple and Amazon Se...

In Good Scientist! You Get a Badge ["Precious research money is wasted on unreal results, but we can change the culture of science....

Here's something triggered by New Prof's post on her experience with a recent counseling session at her institution. * * * Place:...

Both via Andrew Gelman ( here and here ). First, here's Tom Lehrer's non-video song (getting the words may be a bit difficult at...

By now, you should be familiar with the names of these two journalists who got into trouble, and have received some punishment, for plagiar...

...according to Krishna Kumar, Professor of Education at Delhi University and a former Director of NCERT. He discusses the four major diff...

In a recent TOI article titled Anyone worried about what’s wrong with our education? , Prof. T. T. Narendran from IIT Madras observes: JE...

Matt Honan in Wired : How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking Patrick Combs in FT : A man walks into the bank . "P...