In our April issue: the tragedy of Flint, and the hunt for exoplanets
More than a year ago now, Twitter carried the story of Flint, Michigan across 3700…
Brian TarranApril 5, 2017
Statistical dinosaurs and other creatures
Evolution is change in the heritable traits of biological populations over successive generations. Through these…
Will this century see a devastating meteor strike?
On 30 June 1908, a meteor with a diameter of up to 180 metres exploded…
Brian TarranJune 30, 2015
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 3
The subject of today's article is impact risk and concludes the three-part series looking at…
Jordi PratsMarch 28, 2013
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 2
In the first part of this article we saw that meteorites fall to Earth at…
Jordi PratsMarch 26, 2013
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 1
Thanks to Russian drivers and amateur cameramen, a few weeks ago we had the privilege…
Jordi PratsMarch 25, 2013
Odd Statistical Snippet of the week: Voltaire and the statistician who won the lottery and proved that the earth is not round
I was listening with half an ear (as one does) to Melvyn Bragg’s academic-intellectual-historical-philosophical-scientific educate-us-all-in-things-that-every-civilised-person-ought-to-know-but-probably-doesn’t…
Julian ChampkinMay 4, 2012
