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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October 30, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces • Conference Blogging
A red squirrel runs through the Lazienki Park on a crisp autumn morning in Warsaw, Poland. Source: AP. Like this little guy, I'm heading out of here. Later on this week, I'm off to the History of Science Society...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:43 PM • 0 Comments
October 29, 2006
Category: Politics
Biggest Hassle -- High-ranking visitors. More disruptive to work than a rocket attack. VIPs demand briefs and "battlefield" tours (we take them to quiet sections of Fallujah, which is plenty scary for them). Our briefs and commentary seem to...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:48 PM • 0 Comments
October 28, 2006
Category: Maroon and Gold
It's that time of the week again: time for that rollercoaster ride that is ASU football. Today the team (4-3, 1-3 in conference) travel to Washington to take on the Huskies (4-4, 2-3) at home for the first time since 1999....
Posted by John Lynch at 5:16 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Biology • Bits and Pieces
Since everyone is talking about the sequencing of the honeybee genome*, it seems appropriate (isn't it always?) to post some Monty Python. Ladies & gentlemen, I present, "Eric The Half A Bee": (Speaks) Half a bee, philosophically,Must, ipso facto, half...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:38 PM • 2 Comments
October 27, 2006
Category: Politics
Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin write: As right-wing politicians and pundits call us stooges for Osama bin Laden, Tony Judt charges, in a widely discussed and heatedly debated essay in the London Review of Books, that American liberals -- without...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:23 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Politics
NBC is refusing to show ads for the Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up and Sing because they feel the the ads are "disparaging to President Bush." Apparently criticizing the President is un-American especially running up to the mid-term elections. Ironic,...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:16 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
I was browsing the search terms that brought people to this site and discovered the following regarding the psyche of my readers: "I apologize""catfish that swims into penis?""Will someone please kill me" Somewhat disturbing are the following: asu glory holes"lobster...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:53 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Politics
How come we tax-payers have to pay for the President to fly around and stump for Republican candidates (and get their name wrong)? After all, the cost of security and Air Force One (five gallons of fuel a mile) are fairly substantial....
Posted by John Lynch at 12:42 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Poetry
On a Wedding AnniversaryDylan Thomas The sky is torn acrossThis ragged anniversary of twoWho moved for three years in tuneDown the long walks of their vows. Now their love lies a lossAnd Love and his patients roar on a chain;From...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:28 AM • 0 Comments
October 25, 2006
Category: Bits and Pieces
A few days back I mentioned the anatomically correct statues of lions that have created a bit of a stir here in Arizona. Remember? "[T]he lions are depicted raising their bottoms in the air, each with a ram trapped under...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:53 PM • 5 Comments
October 24, 2006
Category: Poetry
Wilkins has posted a poem about churches and mentioned that he goes into churches when he travels ... as do I. My favorite poem about such - if you can count a Nick Cave lyric - is "Brompton Oratory": Up...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:27 AM • 3 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
This man, if you didn't already know, is a musical genius, and in just under a month he releases Orphans, a three disk compilation of unreleased material. Already available online is the seven minute ditty "Road to Peace," Waits'...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:19 PM • 2 Comments
October 22, 2006
Category: Anti-evolution • In Their Own Words • Intelligent Design
The C.S. Lewis Society is sponsoring the Evidence of Design conference upcoming in Florida (Nov 3rd + 4th) and featuring Walter Bradley, Paul Nelson and Tom Woodward. The goal? [To] thoroughly equip church members and leaders with generally non-technical, cutting-edge...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:11 PM • 5 Comments
