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Here. My "new home" post (explaining some of the whys) is here , and my first "real" new post is here . I'll try ...

Last year much excitement and noise occurred, including on this blog [ 1 , 2 , 3 ], when a group of scientists (led by Rajesh Rao at the Un...

Dilip posted an interesting problem the other day: if you were a professor teaching probability theory, and asked your students to toss a c...

I find it comical that India's security agencies (now joined by several other countries) are demanding the "encryption keys" ...

It's been several months since we got our Mac Mini [ 1 , 2 ]. Previously my wife used a Linux laptop. It worked well, except when it d...

Madhav Chari, jazz pianist, performed with an all-Chennai trio -- consisting of himself, Naveen Kumar (bass) and Jeoraj George (drums) yeste...

Christopher Hitchens' own answer to the question is here , along with much other interesting stuff. In Hitch's words, Well look, ...

Today I read this article in Open magazine, on allegations that Sharad Pawar's daughter, Supriya Sule, is a citizen of Singapore and th...

Cross-border terrorism is almost dead. Pakistan is engulfed in its own problems. So why does the Kashmir problem not die too? Could it be b...

The question is engaging the religious. Christopher Hitchens has been diagnosed with cancer. Given his well-known atheism, should a relig...