♦ Interesting news articles involving math (see also the course disclaimer about not suing me!)

• Election fraud:
  • Rise and fall of internet election-fraud hunters (Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal)
  • Statistical sleuthing on the Iran elections (Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal Blog)
  • Statistical test suggestive of fraud in Iranian elections
• When precision is only 92.11567% accurate (Charles Forelle, Wall Street Journal)
• World record in craps (the casino game!) (S. N. Ethier and Fred M. Hople)
• When combined data reveals the flaw in the law of averages
• http://www.sciencenews.org/view/authored/id/43/name/Julie_Rehmeyer

♦ Interesting videos

• TED Lectures:
  • Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
  • Dan Pink on Motivation
• Did You Know (2009 version)
• Yes, Prime Minister: Manipulation Polls (YouTube video)