Statistics of Voting Systems; IgNobel Winners; Islam in Space, Black & White Moon

Today's "Put on Your Thinking Cap Edition" of CKCU's science show is available live via webcast and features a look at the statistics behind Proportional Representation, or MMP, and our current method of voting here in Ontario - "Majority Rule, or First past the Post". Also, the show takes a whirl through the winners of this year's "Silly Science Oscars", as I think of them - the IgNobels. These are awards for science that first makes you crack up laughing, (or at least smirk) and then makes you think. Let X = X has been tracking these awards, which come out of venerable old Harvard U, since their inception, way back in 1991. This year's winners range from From giving viagara to hamsters to reduce jet lag, to bottomless bowls of soup for obesity research. And more! That's on today's Let X = X! So tune in at 9:15 am.

Meanwhile in web exclusives:

NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn has yet more information on Saturn and its moons, including data pointing at why one of the ringed planet's moons has one side that's white and the other black. And no it's not a shadow. read all about it on BBC's science pages. ...Hey - I just woke up as I was slaving in the studio for you 'til late last night for today's show. You are safer with BBC than my brain, at last until it wakes up!

And Malaysia's first astronaut launches into space today. Back in 2006, the populous country held a conference to look at issues that would be faced by Islamic astronauts.