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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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February 28, 2006
Category: Evolution
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is partnering with Carnegie Museum of Natural History in a first-of-its-kind program that will educate medical students on the evolutionary history of humans and animals. By learning the origins of human disease, such...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:46 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
Busy, busy here. Lectures to prepare, theses to read, grading to be done. Will be back later, but for the moment, feast your eyes on "Microsoft redesigns iPod packaging" ... so true, so true....
Posted by John Lynch at 8:40 PM • 0 Comments
February 26, 2006
Category: Anti-evolution
News from Answers in Genesis, Henry Morris, the godfather of American young earth creationism and founder of the Institute for Creation Research died last night at the age of 87. Like him or loath him, Morris' influence on American anti-evolutionism...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:06 PM • 0 Comments
February 25, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math? Well, PZ and Grrrlscientist were doing it. And I only want to be one of the cool kids in 8th grade....
Posted by John Lynch at 11:30 PM • 6 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
When I was growing up in Ireland, the Olympics were something worth watching; amateur athletes not getting monetary compensation, giving it their all, and happy to do so because it was the Olympics. Perhaps a major factor was the fact...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:20 PM • 4 Comments
February 23, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
Given the fact that Henry Thoby Prinsep has appeared twice on these pages over the past few days, and that Nick referred to him as a "footnote in history with a weird name" (I'm not picking on you Nick!), it...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:44 PM • 0 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
My post on the Darwin photo was picked up by Nick at the Panda's Thumb. Yesterday, I contacted Kevin Repp, Curator of Modern European Books and Manuscripts at the Beinecke and I received this reply today: Many thanks for your...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:16 PM • 0 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 21, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
This is just too funny for words. This weekend, Boingboing ran a story about a woman who lost her camera while on holiday, and of a Canadian family that found it, but refuses to return it because doing so would...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:02 PM • 1 Comments
Category: The Life Academic
Janet has some useful advice to students following the New York Times piece on emails from students to professors that a bunch of Sb'ers have already commented on. My favorite has to be,"How U doin?" is generally too informal an...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:43 PM • 0 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Above is not (see comments) a picture of Charles Darwin, taken obviously in his later years. He commented that "I like this photograph much better than any other which has been taken of me." The original is in the...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:31 PM • 14 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 20, 2006
Category: Anti-evolution
Grrlscientist has a review up of Ruse's book, The Evolution-Creation Struggle (2005), so I thought I'd copy a review I wrote that appeared in Nature Cell Biology (Dec 2005 issue). As an undergraduate in Ireland in the mid-80's I ran...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:14 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is this nations premier scientific body and was founded in the 19th century to promote science (along the model of its British counterpart). Ironically, one of its early supporters was the great...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:46 AM • 0 Comments
February 19, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
Rob Skipper is a philosopher and historian of biology whom I had the pleasure of spending some time with last year at the Dibner Institute Seminar at Woods Hole. So, I note that he and his group at the University...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:34 PM • 2 Comments
February 17, 2006
Category: The Life Academic
Earlier on today I posted the following which seems to have disappeared from the page: After spending yesterday evening preparing for classes by watching the ICR video Thousands ... Not Billions and the ID flick The Privileged Planet, I awake...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:18 PM • 3 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Quailtard: farm-raised quail released for the hunters to fire at. As in: "Look, the mere fact that we're even talking about how the vice president drives up with his rich friends in cars to shoot farm-raised wingless quailtards is letting...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:42 PM • 2 Comments
February 15, 2006
Category: Anti-evolution
Dan Ely is a physiologist who supported the Ohio lesson plan that was defeated yesterday. In this skreed, the DI tries to make out that Ely - who testified in Kansas - has been unfairly represented as a creationist. Let's...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:57 PM • 5 Comments
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