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Seven things to keep in mind before sending off your job application to an Asian university Do your research Collaborating with an overseas university first is a great way to get to know them if you are considering moving abroad. Paul Matsudaira started his career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, before accepting the position as head of biological sciences at National University of Singapore in 2009. While he was still at MIT Matsudaira taught biology to students from two Singaporean universities via an online videolink. He also travelled to Singapore several times in the...

Delhi denial follows claims a third of anti-malarial drugs in Uganda and Tanzania could be counterfeit or substandard India has denied claims that it has exported large quantities of counterfeit medication to Africa, after the Guardian published a front page exposé on the phenomenon. "No fake medicines have been sent from India to the continent of Africa," a spokesman for the ministry of external affairs in Delhi said. The article cited experts and NGO reports as saying that up to a third of anti-malarial drugs in Uganda and Tanzania might be fake or substandard, and the majority of them...

I remember participating in science fairs when I was a kid. In fact, now that I have the opportunity to interview high school students who are applying to MIT, I hear about all types of science fair projects. In case you didn't know, Google also has a science fair and this year the winning project was an impressive project titled, "Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer" by 17-yr-old Brittany Wenger. Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer successfully detects 99.11% of malignant breast tumors. You can learn more about this fascinating project here . The...

The almost universal use of the terms "firepower" and "firewalls" in reporting on the financial crisis is odd and strangely revealing ( Pressure on Germany to allow ECB to stop the rot , 8 November). Originally "firewalls" were used to combat forest fires, ie a destructive power in Nature, but now the image reminds us of computer programs that combat a malign human agency, albeit in the form of a "virus" and thus, once again, mysteriously, a threat of Nature. In the military analogy of "firepower", the enemy is human, but we all know that human...

As Theresa May's case shows, a culture that demands overconfidence at the top will suffer the consequences Bill Clinton has a new mantra. Once a day, as he told an audience this week , he makes it a rule to find a reason to say "I didn't know that" and "I was wrong". He takes it so seriously that if the opportunity doesn't come up naturally, he creates one. Clinton is doing this because he is ferociously curious. He's a man on an intellectual journey, and he wants to understand a complex, constantly changing world, rather than being trapped by limited, outdated...

It's easy to succumb to the kind of memory lapse that undid Perry – psychologists have been studying how for years Texas governor Rick Perry's public "d'oh" moment makes for excruciating viewing, yet such is the fragility of memory, it's amazing this kind of thing doesn't happen to politicians more often. Memory slips are a part of everyday life, from failing to remember a famous actor's name, to going upstairs to get something only to arrive and realise we've forgotten what we went there for. A pertinent study by Icelandic psychologists published in 2007 involved...