I am normal (almost) :-(

I've always thought that I was crazy and would be a psychiatrist's dream patient. I came across this test for Personality disorders on Lakshmi's blog, and got the following results:

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Low
Schizoid:	Low
Schizotypal:	Low
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	Moderate
Narcissistic:	Low
Avoidant:	Moderate
Dependent:	Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Low
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information --

Of all the online quizzes this was the most disappointing :( It rated me to be as normal as normal can be! Wouldn't it feel nice to be a little crazy?

Publish or Plagiarise, else Perish

This is an blogpost by Prof Arunn Narasimhan, a faculty at IIT, Madras. Though this post is related to plagiariam in science, I think it could apply equally well in any other field. The post is about what constitutes plagiarism, and what pressures drive the plagiarist.

Well worth having a look. Read on - Publish or Plagiarise, else Perish.

The post appears in nOnoscience, a blog(?)/site "on Science, Math and related research, educational and social issues, with occasional humor and personal asides and plain blah", maintained by contributions from Arunn and Lakshmi.