I'm now back at a job where I can listen to the iPlayer while working, so I'll be sharing some recommendations again.

You And Yours

I wouldn't normally recommend You And Yours in something like this, but there's an interesting topic involved here. About a year ago You And Yours had a feature where Gordon Brown took questions from listeners, and in a couple of cases he said he'd look into their issues and get back to them. This includes follow ups with those listeners - an electric bike scheme, and a truck driver after retraining. Programme has features on online ticket scams, Chinese lanterns,

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AJP at the BBC

I'm a sucker for Archive on Four. This edition's all about AJP Taylor, the first of the great educational presenters.

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The Tribes Of Science: Computer Programmers

Documentary series following various groupings within science. Looking at Second Life's creators in this episode.

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Analysis: Crying Treason

Covering recent calls for using the Treason laws again.

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This may seem strange, because these digits usually don't change who wins. In fact, last digits in a fair election don't tell us anything about the candidates, the make-up of the electorate or the context of the election. They are random noise in the sense that a fair vote count is as likely to end in 1 as it is to end in 2, 3, 4, or any other numeral. But that's exactly why they can serve as a litmus test for election fraud. For example, an election in which a majority of provincial vote counts ended in 5 would surely raise red flags.

Why would fraudulent numbers look any different? The reason is that humans are bad at making up numbers. Cognitive psychologists have found that study participants in lab experiments asked to write sequences of random digits will tend to select some digits more frequently than others.

Full article here.