thoughts on science, history, and teaching
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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June 17, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
I'm going to be out of regular electonic contact until the beginning of next month, so there will be a blogging hiatus. It would be really sweet if we meet our challenge goals by the time I return. I can...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:00 PM • 0 Comments
June 16, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
Have to agree with this one ... Another one below the fold. Via boingboing....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:55 PM • 8 Comments
Category: Sports
So, yeah, Argentina whupped Serbia & Montenegro, 6-0. For your viewing pleasure here is Esteban Cambiasso's goal, the second of the six. We're up to 28% of our goal and are third of the SBers for money collected. So let's...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:16 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
Good news from the mothership. SEED magazine has come out and stated that it will match the total donations from our DonorsChoose drive up to $10,000. Yes, folks, your $10 donation is now worth $20. So don't delay. I know...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:17 AM • 0 Comments
June 15, 2006
Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
The mothership asks: How is it that all the PIs (Tara, PZ, Orac et al.), various grad students, post-docs, etc. find time to fulfill their primary objectives (day jobs) and blog so prolifically? Ann Coulter would answer that, in the...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:41 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Sports
Observation: ESPN soccer commentators are idiots who need to stop bringing everything back to the US/Italy game. Observation: Trinidad & Tobago were unlucky. Prediction: Neither England nor Sweden will advance past the Round of 16. Prediction: Italy 2 USA 0...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:04 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
Educators will tell you that a good foundation at the K-2 level leads to success later on. My daughter has just finished first grade and over the past year alone has made significant strides in her reading, writing and math...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:55 AM • 0 Comments
June 14, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
John beat me to it, but I'll go ahead anyways. Congrats to Reed Cartwright, active at Georgia Citizens for Integrity in Science and the Panda's Thumb, for passing his dissertation at the University of Georgia and thus now becoming Dr...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:17 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
It appears Coulter's knowledge of evolution (and the certainty with which she spouts) is on a par with her knowledge of the Vietnam War....
Posted by John Lynch at 5:14 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Intelligent Design
Apparently more than Dembski helped Coulter with her attack on evolution: "I couldn't have written about evolution without the generous tutoring of Michael Behe, Devid Berlinski, and William Dembski" Dembski, Behe & Berlinski. It's not looking good for the three...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:35 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Mammals
This may not look like much, but it's rare, very rare. The World Wildlife Fund yesterday announced that a motion-triggered camera captured the first every photo of a wild Sumatran rhino in Borneo. There are believed to perhaps be only...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:56 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Intelligent Design
Newton was, as we all know, a Christian. Creationists apologists for "good science" being rooted in Christianity avoid his heretical anti-trinitarianism, but that is an issue for another day. Today, from F.U.B.A.R. and via Daily Kos, I give you ID...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:50 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
Here is Kaká's splendid goal against Croatia. Viewers used to the ESPN school of broadcasting may like to note (1) the commentary that actually tells you who has the ball, and (2) the lack of crap on-screen....
Posted by John Lynch at 12:12 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Politics
Charles Haughey has died at the age of 80. For most readers, that will mean nothing. For those who grew up in Ireland, this death will either bring sadness or a quiet sense of satisfaction. I am in the latter...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:40 AM • 0 Comments
June 13, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
Rollins on Coulter....
Posted by John Lynch at 10:45 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Mammals
The first photos and video have been taken of a live Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus), described in a scientific journal for the first time last year. It may be the only living species in its family, which scientists previously...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:06 PM • 0 Comments
