I started off with The Vengeance Of Rome, the last of the Pyat tetralogy. I guessed the twist at the end, but it was heavily signposted. Many of the characters lead glamorous lifestyles, taking lots of cocaine. It made me want to be like them and snort cocaine. I won't …

New Scientist asked me to write a piece on the mathematical
paradoxes associated with elections. I had 1500 words to
play with. Many items were passing references
to alert readers to interesting related topics. I wasn't
writing a technical treatise.

Any interested reader can
get the full story from the …

Yeah, the author didn't include Score Voting. He replied to me:

New Scientist asked me to write a piece on the mathematical
paradoxes associated with elections. I had 1500 words to
play with. Many items were passing references
to alert readers to interesting related topics. I wasn't
writing a technical …

There was a piece on the voting system on yesterdays material world, bbc r4.

I didn't manage to listen to it all, so can't comment on it. But you can get the pod cast, or listen again.

Toby at work sent me an interesting New Scientist article on voting systems.

Entitled 'Electoral dysfunction: Why democracy is always unfair', it argues that due to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, you can never have a perfect voting system. The problem with this argument is that Arrow's Theorem only applies to voting …

Indeed, although the version of range voting on the website you refer to has the 'no opinion' option, which complicates things unnecessarily.

Score Voting is awesome!

http://scorevoting.net/

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Went to a bracing Science Cafe given by Doug King. His view was that when it comes to environmentally friendly buildings, the 3 most important things are insulation, insulation and insulation. Anything else is mere eco-bling, there for its appearance rather than its utility. In particular it's almost never a …