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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September 30, 2006
Category: Politics
Sullivan on the MCA bill: Whatever else this is, it is not a constitutional democracy. It is a thinly-veiled military dictatorship, subject to only one control: the will of the Great Decider. And the war that justifies this astonishing attack...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:19 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Maroon and Gold
Unranked ASU is playing #14 Oregon. I was supposed to be at the game, but had to attend to family business instead. At the half it is 24-3 for the Ducks, despite ASU having nearly five minutes extra possession, less...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:00 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Politics
Remember folks, Kip Hawley is an idiot....
Posted by John Lynch at 5:48 PM • 0 Comments
Category: In Their Own Words • Intelligent Design • Pseudoscience
Dembski breathlessly announces the latest front in the ID war on science - they've been unable to convince any relevent scientists, so they go straight to the children: The Darwinists have had your young people long enough to shape, subvert,...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:43 PM • 15 Comments
September 29, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
Does any reader have a scan of this picture of William Butler Yeats? I've seen it on some versions of the complete works of Yeats, but the only version I can find online via GIS is 404ing and is...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:34 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Politics
As Jack Cafferty notes, the MCA 2006 bill passed by the Senate yesterday snuck in a clause that absolves the Bush administration of any potential war crimes that may have occurred since 11th September 2001. Handy. It is also...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:55 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the death of one of the great musical artists of the 20th century, Miles Davis....
Posted by John Lynch at 2:02 AM • 5 Comments
Category: Politics
for the government to torture and indefinitely detain individuals without criminal charge. HR 6166 ("the Military Commissions Act of 2006") passed 65 to 34 in the Senate, with 12 Democrats (including, surprise, surprise, Lieberman - but neither of the AZ Democrats)...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:28 AM • 0 Comments
September 28, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
Over at the World's Fair, Ben and David have posted results from their taking of the Earth Day Ecological Footprint quiz. Here are my results: CATEGORY / ACRES FOOD / 5.4MOBILITY / 1.7SHELTER / 6.9 GOODS/SERVICES / 7.9 TOTAL FOOTPRINT...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:28 PM • 8 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
Just got back from a pleasant evening spent with my fellow SciBling Chris Mooney. Chris gave a great talk here in Tempe which not only gave the gist of his book, The Republican War on Science, but also detailed...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:55 AM • 6 Comments
September 27, 2006
Category: Sports
So the Arizona Cardinals moved out of Sun Devil Stadium (home of the ASU Sun Devils) and got themselves a new state-of-the-art facility in Glendale, a city in the west valley. By all accounts it is a sweet stadium. With...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:09 AM • 3 Comments
September 26, 2006
Bumping this up so as to give Chris some Tempe loving ... Changing Hands is a legendary bookstore here in Tempe, and tomorrow it will host Chris Mooney at 7pm for a talk on his wonderful book The Republican War...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:33 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
Today marks the birth (in 1791) of Théodore Géricault, one of my favorite painters. Best known for Raft of the Medusa (see above, properly titled Scene of Shipwreck), Géricault's short career came to an end at the age of...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:52 AM • 3 Comments
September 24, 2006
Category: Books • The Life Academic
In November 1920, the celebrated author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle announced the beginning of a new "epoch in human thought." He believed that he was presenting "a strong prima-facie case" for the existence of fairies, based on photographs taken...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:36 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
Over at Fark.com someone posted a link to a game called Line Rider (you can play it here). Then someone posted the movie below. Someone has too much time on their hands!...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:13 PM • 0 Comments
September 23, 2006
Category: Maroon and Gold
ASU (#18) are playing the Cal Golden Bears (#20) at Berkeley. The first half has just ended and the Devils are down 42-14. After a good opening scoring drive, ASU have just collapsed, with the only ray of sunshine...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:00 PM • 2 Comments
