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In a must-read article in the recent American Scientist, Andrew Gelman and Kaiser Fung summarizes the take-downs of several error-prone e...

Here is what you Nerds of the Internet-public have been waiting for. From today, IIT Madras officially is on Twitter and Facebook . You...

Dr Inger Mewburn at Thesis Whisperer : Academic Assholes and the Circle of Niceness . Mewburn poses the all-important question, "Do yo...

That is the title of an article by Adarsh Sandhu that appears in the Science Careers section of the journal Science. With views from Ind...

Prof P.V. Indiresan, former Director of IIT Madras, Padma Bhushan in 2000, member on countless GOI committees and a frequent writer on sever...

Paula Stephan, Chiara Franzoni, Giuseppe Scellato have an NBER working paper entitled " Choice of Country by the Foreign Born for PhD ...

Peter Whoriskey's story -- As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias -- starts with research on ...

... The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an i...

In his post, below , Arunn talks about Neal Stephenson's preference for pen, and his love and passion for what he does -- writing novels...

Today morning -- a weekend day -- I open my email and read this. Flowstate -- a paid app for the iPad to make you write without distractions...

How many corny-horny jokes can a geek create out of the uncertainty principle? Watch: Heisenberg from seth w on Vimeo Hat tip: Jen...

WiseGeek: What does 200 Calories look like? Pictures of 200 Calories of Various Foods. Robert Cottrell (the editor of The Browser: Writing...

Nature reports that a Company offers portable peer review : Author-pays service cuts down on redundant reviews. The concept comes from a co...

Raymond Bonner and Christine Spolar have a hugely damning FT story about the death of Shane Todd, an American scientist, in Singapore wher...

Daniel Hamermesh in VoxEU : Aging and Productivity: Economists and Others . Is economics still a young person’s game? If not, what is chan...