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YANSS 301 – How our struggle to resolve cognitive dissonance can make us more wrong, not less, and less moral not more - In this episode, we discuss the landmark 1959 study that popularized the term “cognitive dissonance,” and we dive […]

Sun le raanee meree kahaanee - This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted ...

Introducing Zoho People for Microsoft Teams - These days, employees are expecting their organization to provide a convenient working experience so they can complete their everyday tasks with a click ...

Briefs on Hindustani musical instruments - The classification of instruments: Around 3000 BC, the Chinese are known to have classified musical instruments based on the material from which they were...

We’ve moved! The IBM Research blog has a new home - In an effort better integrate the IBM Research blog with the IBM Research web experience, we have migrated to a new landing page: https://research.ibm.co...

arXiv.org recently added Google Scholar search links to all preprints’ pages - The links in question can be found in the bottom right of the preprints’ arXiv pages in the References & Citations area. IMHO this is an important feature...

Change is the name of the game for Indian IT services companies - The changing needs of clients, the emergence of new technologies like AI and the millennial workforce lead IT firms to prepare for a new wave of disrupti...

On Providence - This is the second analysis of "On Providence", an essay by Seneca, that I have done. I did the first three years ago. So. This essay is written in the for...

Richard Rusczyk – Inspired by Math #39 - I never did much math competition in middle school or high school although I did score well on the MAA competition and on the Math SAT and I went to public...

Content Elsewhere - I thought I'd start linking to pieces I write elsewhere. Here's a backlog of recent articles: *Reuters* (with Christopher Papagianis): The growing clout ...

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Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap) - Comments

Building atom-by-atom on insulator at room temperature - If the above picture reminds you of something like it some 27 years ago when physicists announced a nanostructure built atom-by-atom, then it is importan...

New Input Generator Framework in Avogadro 2 - Avogadro 1.x had quite a large number of input generators that came from very humble beginnings. They were designed to be easy to write, and to give a s...