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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January 31, 2007
Category: Bits and Pieces • Books
The more astute among you will have noticed that I have been awol more-or-less for the past week. I have a major deadline to hit on Friday and once that is done (and I have rested) I will resume...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:55 PM • 1 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
January 31st 1632 - Death of Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician 1868 - Birth of Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate 1881 - birth of Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel laureate 1896 - Birth of Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:07 AM • 0 Comments
January 30, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
January 30th 1720 - Birth of Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist 1822 - Birth of Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist 1858 - Death of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist 1899 - Birth of Max Theiler, South African...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:57 AM • 0 Comments
January 29, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
January 29th 1688 - Birth of Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher 1810 - Birth of Ernst Kummer, German mathematician 1846 - Birth of Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. 1926 -...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:48 AM • 0 Comments
Category: Mammals
Wolverine, Gulo gulo....
Posted by John Lynch at 7:31 AM • 0 Comments
January 28, 2007
Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences
In memory of those that slipped the bonds of Earth on this day in 1986. I was a freshman in college. The flight started at 11:08 EST - just after four in the afternoon in Ireland - and I...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:49 AM • 4 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
January 28th 1540 - Birth of Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician 1608 - Birth of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist 1611 - Birth of Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer 1622 - Birth of Adrien Auzout, French astronomer 1687 -...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:15 AM • 4 Comments
January 27, 2007
Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Today in 1967, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center....
Posted by John Lynch at 7:23 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Blog Memes and Such
I am: Arthur C. Clarke Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary. Which science fiction writer are you? PZ made me do it....
Posted by John Lynch at 6:27 PM • 3 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
As I noted earlier, today is the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Willis in 1621. Willis is remembered as the father of modern neurology with his publication in 1664 of Cerebri Anatomi. He was also co-founder of the...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:11 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Politics
Rush Limbaugh yesterday had the following to say about women serving in the US military: So what does it tell you they of the military? Its nothing but a little social playground for experimentation, by the way since they're liberals...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:22 PM • 25 Comments
Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Courtesy of APOD....
Posted by John Lynch at 12:53 PM • 1 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
January 27th 1621 - Birth of Thomas Willis, English physician 1851 - Death of John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter 1860 - Death of János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician 1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:02 AM • 2 Comments
January 26, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
January 26th 1630 - Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician 1697 - Death of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician 1823 - Death of Edward Jenner, English physician 1904 - Birth of Ancel Keys, American scientist 1911 - Birth of Polykarp Kusch,...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:53 AM • 1 Comments
Category: Poetry
Widgeon For Paul Muldoon It had been badly shot. While he was plucking it he found, he says, the voice box - like a flute stop in the broken windpipe - and blew upon it unexpectedly his own small...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:51 AM • 1 Comments
Category: Biology
Oldie but still a goodie....
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