Month: December 2013

Predatory publishing, vulnerable prey

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On December 29, the International Conference on Recent Innovations in Engineering, Science and Technology (ICRIEST) is kicked off in Pune. It’s not a very well-known conference, but might as well have been for all the wrong reasons. On December 16 and 20, Navin Kabra, from Pune, submitted two papers to ICRIEST. Both were accepted and, … Read more

Solving mysteries, by William & Adso

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The following is an excerpt from The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco’s debut novel from 1980. The story is set in an Italian monastery in 1327, and is an intellectually heady murder mystery doused in symbolism and linguistic ambivalence. Two characters, William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk, are conversing about using deductive reasoning to … Read more