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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Maria Mitchell's Fight for Equal Pay

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Becky Ferreirain Motherboard : How a Victorian Astronomer Fought the Gender Pay Gap, and Won : ... [One] of the most interesting fights [Ma...

Phyllis Rostykus on Women Scientists in Films

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In her Slate article -- The Real Real Genius -- she says, "Thirty years ago, I helped inspire the lead female character in the classi...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

The Married Kama Sutra

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Simon Rich and Farley Katz describe some of the positions from this yet-to-be-written classic.
Friday, August 21, 2015

Interest in adultery as a metric for ranking universities

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It turns out that Ashley Madison [Slogan: " Life is short. Have an affair ."] had over 74,000 members who used official universi...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Life Imitates Onion - Part Deux: Area People Search for Google CEO's Chennai Origins

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The farcical search for Venky Ramakrishnan's origins in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, is playing out all over again. This time, the search i...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The FBI File on Paul Erdős

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You know you are in for some surreal stuff when the article's headline carries this quote: "Nothing to indicate the subject had a...

Academic War!

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Three stages of a continuing saga, dubbed the Battle for San Diego by Inside Higher Ed : July 6, 2015: UC San Diego sues University of Sou...
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Friday, August 07, 2015

Akshat Rathi on History of Indian Science

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Over at Mint On Sunday , Rathi has a great article with a brilliant title -- Separating Fact from Ancient Indian Science Fiction -- explori...

Anant Bhan on Gender Gap in Medical Education Leadership in India

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Anant Bhan has a link-filled post over at British Medical Journal Blogs : Given the high number of women entering medicine—a status report ...
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Adversarial Collaboration

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David Shariatmadari's profile of Prof. Daniel Kahneman has lots of fascinating details, including some about his childhood years in Naz...
Monday, August 03, 2015

Richard J. Light: "How to Live Wisely"

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Harvard Graduate School of Education's Richard Light talks about an interesting seminar/discussion course in his NYTimes column [Hat t...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Links

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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 ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Profiles of Mathematicians

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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...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Janaki Ammal

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

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