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We’ve written before about how mathematics can bring us amazing revelations. Now a mathematician in Canada says that he can use math to tell when a politician is lying. With our own election coming up in 2008, this is something we can use.

Stu Hutson writes in New Scientist that a hard-fought election for the post of prime minister is taking place in Canada right now. Mathematician David Skillicorn created an algorithm which reveals which candidate is telling the truth in his campaign speeches, and which one is using more “spin.” An algorithm is a set of step-by-step instructions which results in the solution to a specific problem.
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William Henry interviewed Donald Brownlee on Dreamland on January 13 about Project Stardust(If you’re a subscriber you can still listen to this incredible interview). The Stardust capsule has returned to Earth after a seven year trip through space, and NASA scientists are delighted by the dust samples that came back to Earth. Some of them were large enough to be seen with the naked eye.

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China is booming economically right now, but Chinese officials say that the country has only a few years left before oil prices will make its present economy unworkable. Chinese sources project a doubling of oil prices within five years, no matter if oil is a limited or unlimited resource, because even if it is created naturally within the Earth, usage is far outstripping the planet’s ability to create new supplies. They’re so desperate, they’re even thinking of going to the moon.
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James Lovelock, created the Gaia hypothesis, named after the Greek goddess Gaia, which states that that the living matter of the Earth functions like a single organism. The Independent has published an interview with Lovelock in which he states that the goddess Gaia may now be on her death bed.

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