Sometime round about 16:00 local time on Friday 29 September, an Embraer Legacy jet on a delivery flight on airway UZ 6 in the Mato Grosso of Brasil collided with an object which took away most of a winglet and damaged the empennage. At around the same time, GOL 1907, a B737-800 (or B738 for…
As I pointed out yesterday when considering a critique of Swinburne, a lot of popular science blogging is concerned with the arguments for intelligent-design creationism: the argument that the nature and complexity of the world yields empirical evidence for the existence of a god, an “intelligent designer” who designed the world. Such arguments have a…
I recently looked through Nature’s List of Top 50 Science Blogs and ended up reading quite a lot of the Good Math, Bad Math Weblog of Mark Chu-Carroll, a computer scientist at a major industry research center who is enamoured of mathematics. The Science Top 50 Weblogs seems to be heavy on biology and the…