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Ben Goldacre in Buzzfeed News : Scientists Are Hoarding Data And It’s Ruining Medical Research . "Major flaws in two massive trials of ...

It all started with The Heirs to Ramanujan's Genius : A profile of six Indian mathematicians by Dilip D'Souza in Mint on Sunday (wh...

Scroll.in has a great article entitled Remembering Dr Janaki Ammal, pioneering botanist, cytogeneticist and passionate Gandhian by Geetha D...

Siddhartha Deb has a great piece on Those mythological men and their sacred, supersonic flying temples in The New Republic . Subtitle: ...

R. Ramachandran has an update on the Bimal Roy affair at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata -- A twist in the ISI tale . Arunabha Ba...

In an interesting NYTimes column , we find this bit of history of management education at Yale: Like Harvard and other colleges and univer...

In her WaPo review of a couple of books on US higher education, the president of the University of California system starts with a big spl...

Maki Naro in Popular Science : The trouble with Nobel Prizes -- They're not magic medals of blamelessness. So don't write to me sa...

Gayatri Jayaraman has a must-read article on The Secret Sexism of Indian Science . Lots of Bhatnagar Award winning scientists speak out. S...

Wire.in has published An Open Letter to Arun Shourie on the Sacking of the ISI Director by the alumni of the Indian Statistical Institute. ...

At the lunch table the other day, the Visa Venkateswara   posts came up for discussion, and it occurred to us that, given her name, Goddes...

Gizmodo has a cute story -- Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk . Apparently, the firm that made these chal...

BBC has a pictorial story on temples whose gods specialize in visas. Chilkur Balaji temple is one of the two shrines covered there; the ot...

His Project Syndicate column argues that education is not what we should look to for economic growth. ... [T]hough the typical country ...

Update : I'm adding more information and links at the end. See also the comments. * * * The firing of Prof. Bimal Roy from the post of...