[RUS] Statistical analysis of the elections to the Duma in 2011 shows possible fraud — [Gazeta.Ru | Science]

http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2011/12/10_a_3922390.shtml Eng: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gazeta.ru%2Fscience%2F2011%2F12%2F10_a_3922390.shtml&sl;=ru&tl;=en&hl;=&ie;=UTF-8 In short, statistical analysis of Duma [Russian parliament] election of 2011 shows ~23% artificial skew in favor of the official party United Russia

[RUS] Statistical analysis of the elections to the Duma in 2011 shows possible fraud — [Gazeta.Ru | Science]

http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2011/12/10_a_3922390.shtml Eng: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gazeta.ru%2Fscience%2F2011%2F12%2F10_a_3922390.shtml&sl;=ru&tl;=en&hl;=&ie;=UTF-8 In short, statistical analysis of Duma [Russian parliament] election of 2011 shows ~23% artificial skew in favor of the official party United Russia

[RUS] Statistical analysis of the elections to the Duma in 2011 shows possible fraud — [Gazeta.Ru | Science]

http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2011/12/10_a_3922390.shtml Eng: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gazeta.ru%2Fscience%2F2011%2F12%2F10_a_3922390.shtml&sl;=ru&tl;=en&hl;=&ie;=UTF-8 In short, statistical analysis of Duma [Russian parliament] election of 2011 shows ~23% artificial skew in favor of the official party United Russia

Physics Buzz: The High Water Mark of American Science [Remains of Super Collider project, in Tx, scrapped in 1993]

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2011/03/high-water-mark-of-american-science.html “A group of physicists went AWOL from the American Physical Society conference in Dallas this week to explore the ruins of the nearby Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC was to be the world’s largest and most ambitious physics experiment. It would have been bigger than the LHC and run at triple the energy. But the budget ran out of control and the project was scrapped in 1993.”

Determining computational complexity from characteristic `phase transitions', "Nature'1999 , .PDF

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/selman/papers/pdf/99.nature.phase.pdf an article in Nature journal for 1999 about P=NP problem

CargoCult.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf Richard Faynman 1974 commencements speech at CalTech, that defined the term “Cargo Cult "

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269 excellent article about trustworthiness of medical research

NeuroLogica Blog » Barriers to the Acceptance of Science

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1994 Excellent article, shows some aspects why ppl do not accept silence – main cause: due to human nature emotions win over reason

Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition - robertfortner's posterous

http://robertfortner.posterous.com/the-unrecognized-death-of-speech-recognition An excellent article providing an overview and history of speech recognition technologies. For geeks looking into more tech details, pls see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639412&cid;=32079936

Carolyn Blogs » Blog Archive » Why Learning from PowerPoint Lectures is Frustrating

http://blog.carolynworks.com/?p=154 good wrote-up about usefulness of power point (which I hate with a passion)