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Performance poet and writer Hannah Chutzpah asked on Twitter: What are the technical terms, in your field, for 'dunno'? In medici...

Everywhere around the world, the future is uncertain. But in India, even the past is uncertain. This quote, from former RBI Governor Y.V. R...

Patrick Collison and Michael Nielsen have the click-bait article of the month in The Atlantic , Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck , ...

Let's begin with the post titled Cruelty in Academia from December 2006. That was about grad students in several Indian universities. ...

Vijaysree Venkatraman has a nice article on Prof. G.N.Ramachandran's work at the University of Madras in the fifties and the sixties: Ho...

Congratulations to our colleagues and friends Prof. Navakanta Bhat and Prof. S.K. Satheesh on winning the Infosys Prize in Engineering and...

In a great example of collaborative journalism, The Indian Express partners with several other big names in the news business to shine a br...

FY Fluid Dynamics on Dead salmon swimming . Editorial in Nature : China sets a strong example on how to address scientific fraud . "N...

I am not thrilled to see the word "merit" being used so casually, but Rema Nagarajan's ToI news story captures the essence in...

Meredith Wadman in Science [following up on her explosive report from six weeks ago]: 11 June 2018: Leading Salk scientist resigns [his p...

From this week's must-read article: Ben Blum's The Lifespan of a Lie -- The most famous psychology study of all time was a sham. Wh...

Two links [hat tip to M. Madhan]: Ben Guarino, Emily Rauhala and William Wan in The Washington Post : Health & Science China increasin...

After many people pointed out that the University Grants Commission's "White List" of "approved" journals had many, ...

Way back in March 2014, OLPC News , which used to track all the OLPC-related news and developments, bid farewell to this pipe dream riding ...

... [B]ad papers take a lot of time too, so let us just write a good one. Attributed to the Princeton economist Dilip José Abreu by his ju...