Monthly Archives: July 2014

Plagiarism is plagiarism

Posted on July 14, 2014 by

In a Nature article, Praveen Chaddah argues that textual plagiarism entails that the offending paper only carry a correction and not be retracted because that makes the useful ideas and results in the paper unavailable. On the face of it, this is an argument … Continue reading →

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Billow clouds, shocked streams & shedding eddies

Posted on July 10, 2014 by

I flew from Bangalore to Delhi on Tuesday. The flight was early in the day, at 6, and so I had the wonderful opportunity to watch a sunrise from above a sea of clouds. One very beautiful sight was the presence of … Continue reading →

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Motion charts in R

Posted on July 7, 2014 by

Formatting a motion chart in Google Visualization is as hellish as it’s surprising how simple R makes it. One more reason to learn this underrated language. To create this motion chart, I downloaded the data from here (as CSV) and … Continue reading →

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Science Quiz – July 7, 2014

Posted on July 7, 2014 by

Every week, I create a science quiz for The Hindu newspaper’s In School product. It consists of 10 questions and only developments from the week preceding its day of publication (Monday). The answers are at the end. The _______ region of southwest China is some 4.5 … Continue reading →

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Draft policy on increasing access to DBT/DST research

Posted on July 6, 2014 by

An Open Access Policy Committee has drafted a policy to enhance access to publicly funded research by setting up a national open access (OA) repository under the oversight of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST). … Continue reading →

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New Higgs results show signs of SUSY

Posted on July 5, 2014 by

Two years ago, physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider first announced the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, setting the high-energy physics community atwitter. And it was only a couple weeks ago that physicists also announced that the particle was … Continue reading →

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The federation of our digital identities

Posted on July 5, 2014 by

Facebook, Twitter, email, WordPress, Instagram, online banking, the list goes on… Offline, you’re one person maintaining (presumably) one identity. On the web, you have many of them. All of them might point at you, but they’re still distinct packets of data floating … Continue reading →

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What is VLBI?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by

On June 25, scientists announced the discovery of a trio of supermassive black holes at the center of a galaxy 4.2 billion light years away. The find was credited to the European VLBI Network. A Space.com report stated that this … Continue reading →

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My camera took me for a walk last evening.

Posted on July 2, 2014 by

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