Here are a few of Luke’s favourite blog posts.
The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life
- Comment on “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God”
- What to Read: The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent life
- Fine-Tuning and the Myth of “One variable at a time”
- Not So Sharp: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Robert Klee
- The Traps of WAP and SAP
- In Defence of The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life. A response to Victor Stenger’s reply to my fine-tuning paper.
- Terms and Conditions – A Fine-Tuned Critique of Ikeda and Jefferys (Part 1)
- Probably Not – A Fine-Tuned Critique of Richard Carrier (Part 1)
- What Chances Me? A Fine Tuned Critique of Victor Stenger (Part 1)
- Dirty Cheating Texan! A Fine-Tuned Critique of William Lane Craig (Part 1)
- The Shrinking Quarter: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Fred Adams
- Fishing while the world burns: A Fine-Tuned Critique of P.Z. Myers
- Of Credentials and Confusion: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Hector Avalos
- Any Claim Will Do: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Hugh Ross
- Are The Dice Loaded?
Science, History and Philosophy
- Sean Carroll vs William Lane Craig: A Preview
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on Newton (Part 1)
- What Aristotle Got Right
- A universe from nothing? What you should know before you hear the Krauss-Craig debate
- Derren Brown doesn’t find God – Fear and Faith
- Why science cannot explain why anything at all exists
- The Universe you’ve read about: Solar Eclipses and the Numinous
- Of Nothing, More Sweet Nothings …
- Misunderstanding Michael Reiss
Astronomy, Cosmology and Physics
- Doing cosmology with a brain
- Deducing the Stars
- Fun with Wind-Resistance (Part 1),
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4 - A Better Roller Coaster Simulator
- Ivan Karamazov and Euclid
- Popular Cosmology: what to read
- Life, planets and the import/export business
- Astronauts don’t float
- Jumping in a falling lift
- The LHC and the End of the World
- Big Bad Black Holes
- Did the universe just get less weird?
- Getting your brain around the Universe
- Special Relativity’s closet
Public Speaking for Scientists
- 1: Introduction
- 2: How Comedians Do It
- 2a: Jokes
- 3: How Political Leaders Do It
- 4: How Social Activists Do It
- 5: How Preachers Do It
- 6: How Educators (should) Do It
- 7: Powerpoint
Mathematics and Probability
- 10 Nice things about Bayes’ theorem
- Classify or Measure?
- Appealing to Authority: A User’s Guide
- The Bayesian Utility of Derren Brown
- What is Tuesday Boy telling us?
- Losing on a Winner
- The Surprise Quiz Paradox
Book Reviews
- Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre
- The Cosmic Landscape, by Leonard Susskind
- Extreme Cosmos by Bryan Gaensler
- The Decisive Moment, by Jonah Lehrer
- God’s Philosophers, by James Hannam
- Stalin – The Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
- The Stars in Their Courses, by James Jeans
- Why Evolution is True, by Jerry Coyne
Miscellany
- Finding Science in the Bible
- In Defence of Macksville
- How I’d run the cricket world cup
- Boltzmann, Philosopher
- “We Did This To Ourselves”
- The Placebo Effect: It’s All In Your Head
- The Imperfection of the Musical Scale
- The Early Bird Writes The Words
- A Lesson in Neurology from Jimi Hendrix
Introduction to Batting in Cricket: Mechanics, Visual Strategy and Psychology
- Batting 101: Don’t Watch The Ball
- Batting 102: Visual Speedometer
- Batting 103: Swing More Than The Bat
- Batting 104: A Concentration Model
- Batting 105: Don’t Think About It
- Batting 106: How To Build A Routine