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I completely missed these two other stories about plagiarism allegations against the Vice Chancellors at Jadavpur University and Pondicherry...

Wow, this came out of nowhere! Prof. Deepak Pental (a professor of genetic engineering at the Delhi University, and also its Vice Chancello...

Let me start with links to profiles / interviews of Anurag Acharya, the IIT-KGP and Carnegie Mellon alum who co-created this wonderful servi...

An interesting article on how Germany views Study Abroad aspects of college education: Sending half of Germany’s university students abroa...

Following the #shirtstorm (and the apology ), there has been an outpouring of articles and blog posts on the women-unfriendly culture in aca...

National Geographic : So what difference does it make when there is a lack of women in science? For one, it means women might not get the ...

I completely missed the Infosys Prize announcement [reason: travel, with little internet access]. When I eventually caught up with the news,...

Escape from Microsoft Word by Edward Mendelson in NYRB : The original design of Microsoft Word, in the early 1980s, was a work of clarifyi...

IISc and its alumni started this series of conferences with the first one in Santa Clara, California, in 2007 ( Flickr pics ) -- just a yea...

Astrophysicist and 2011 Nobel winner Brian Schmidt has this totally priceless story : "When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo...

Wonderful stuff [Hat tip: Cocktail Party Physics ]. Here's the website with lots of interactive graphics.

For the Annals of Pop Culture: The Batmobile: The Concept Car That Became a Star by Michael Beschloss. [In] 1965, ABC television greenlig...

Two links. The first one is a summary of an economics paper: Tiger moms and helicopter parents: The economics of parenting style by Matthia...

Sarah Fallon at Wired has an informative story on putting a number, called the number needed to treat (NNT), on the effectiveness of medi...

Outlook reports [hat tip to my collegue Atul Chokshi for the e-mail alert]: Delhi High Court restrains IIPM and its management from us...