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The slides I was talking about are embedded below. They are from a debate between the authors of The Spirit Level (you can buy it here) and their detractors (who have been shown to be wrong, and wanting to dispute the evidence for ideological reasons). The audio of the debate can be found here. Continue reading Mr Brewin’s S1 – The Spirit Level The powerpoint on correlation and PMCC can be found here. The ‘Joy of Stat’s programme I was talking about is on iPlayer here (need to watch it soon as it’ll soon expire) and the ‘More or Less’ podcast can be found on their website too. Well worth listening to. The BBC find out here! For those wanting to get to the figures behind the news, there’s an excellent article here on the BBC, with a link to a good podcast about the recent financial turmoil. Seems like Mathematicians may be partially to blame /-( Excellent weekly radio programme from BBC, looking at the numbers behind the news. This is exactly the sort of stuff that would enrich a university interview, so put it on your podcast list and grab half an hour a week to get smart Webpage iTunes Podcast About 30 years after it was proposed, mathematicians, engineers and scientists have finally unveiled a ‘Quantum Cryptography’ system – a way of sending information like bank details over the internet in code which can never be broken. Read the article here, and if you’re interested in the history of codes and code-breaking, there’s a great book [...] Continue reading Quantum Cryptography – the ultimate secret messenger! Ouch. The clock in America that has been counting up the ‘budget deficit’ – the overdraft of the US government – has run out of digits! They’re going to have to build a new one with two more digits… which will mean they can count up to numbers a hundred times bigger than the last [...] Continue reading Credit Crunch Clock Runs Out of Digits… |
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