Requests for summaries are requests for integrating a summary of certain high quality online information into Ireland Information Guide. You can make such a request when you come across an interesting report or study, but either do not fully understand it or do not have the time to write a complete summary. Types of documents that should be listed here are:
- Reports of all types
- Comprehensive article series
- Books which are available online in full text
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- Heikki Laitinen, The Many Faces of the Yoik (http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?readform&8F1750D3A9719F37C225683100402C79). Finnish Music Quarterly, April 1994.
- E. Buckley, et al., A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön. Memphis, Tennessee. 1824 - 1914.
- An explanation of the following quote, relevant to Stephen Hawking and event horizon:
- The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon.
- A breakdown of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, available here (http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/fec/bpcmpnrfrmact2002.pdf).
- The final report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, available here (http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/SPECIALS/2003/shuttle/CAIB.report.pdf), relevant to Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- The August 2003 Waxman report (by Congressman Henry Waxman and others) on Politics and Science in the Bush administration (http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/) deserves to be summarized. It may need to get its own page, but parts of it are relevant to sexual abstinence, AIDS etc.
- John Taylor Gatto's The Underground History of Education contains some interesting insights that are relevant to school, education etc. A summary of the book can be found at The Memory Hole (http://www.thememoryhole.org/edu/school-mission.htm), and one chapter per month is posted on Gatto's website (http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm) (currently chapters 1-9).
- Posted a brief intro. Am re-reading the book (a good read) for further anecdotes.--azwaldo 23:36, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Tranquility Bay report (http://www.isaccorp.com/tbj/tranquilityreport.doc) by the International Survivors Action Committee. Should be summarized in the article about WWASPS.
- If nobody else does answer this request until mid-September, I will complete it.—Eloquence 14:15, Aug 20, 2003 (UTC)
- Political Conservativism as Motivated Social Cognition is a controversial paper. The full text of the study can be found here (http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/Jost/_private/Political_Conservatism_as_Motivated_Social_Cognition.pdf). The adjunct, in which the authors address some objections to the study, can be found here (http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/jost/_private/Exceptions_That_Prove_the_Rule.pdf). This would probably best be integrated into political conservative.
- If nobody else does answer this request until mid-September, I will complete it.—Eloquence 14:15, Aug 20, 2003 (UTC)
I will edit this topic and submit the final copy in one month-by Dec. 10th,2003. Medopticon
- Crude Vision (http://www.seen.org/pages/reports/crude.shtml) describes oil interests in the United States until the late 1980s. Information contained therein is relevant to 2003 invasion of Iraq, History of Iraq, Gulf War, Bechtel Corporation (which already contains a lot of relevant info) etc.
- Dark Alliance (http://home.comcast.net/~gary.webb/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html) is a multi part article series published in the San Jose Mercury News about the alleged involvement of the CIA in the crack cocaine explosion of the 1980s. Relevant to conspiracy theory but probably deserves its own page.
- A short article on the CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada Canadian Supreme Court case would be useful for those interested in intellectual property issues and free culture. The decision (http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/rec/html/2004scc013.wpd.html) is available. This topic may be relevant to copyright and Eldred v. Ashcroft.
- an article on the resolution of the Katie.com (http://www.katie.com) fiasco and the influence bloggers and slashdotters had on the outcome. Illustrate the power of mass mobilization of online communities and whether it has any relavence in the real world.
Recently completed requests
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