February 28, 2007
A moment of (low flying) zen
Category: Bits and Pieces • Earth and Planetary Sciences
Things you can do with a jet fighter in the Swiss Alps....
Posted by John Lynch at 9:37 PM • 7 Comments
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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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Today in Science
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
February 28th 1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer 1857 - Death of André Dumont, Belgian geologist 1878 - Birth of Pierre Fatou, French mathematician 1896 - Birth of Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate 1901 - Birth...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:11 AM • 0 Comments
Colony Collapse Disorder
Category: Biology
The New York Times is reporting that in 24 states beekeepers are noticing that their bees have been disappearing inexplicably at an alarming rate, threatening not only their livelihoods but also the production of numerous crops, including California almonds, one...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:58 AM • 2 Comments
February 27, 2007
Use the Google!
Category: Politics
GrrlScientist had this first, but it is such a perfect encapsulation of the sheer stupidity and arrogance of the current administration that it is worth posting again. Olbermann on Rice's statement on Fox News that rewriting the 2002 Congressional...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:50 PM • 1 Comments
Today in Science
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
February 27th 1899 - Birth of Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist 1904 - Birth of Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist 1923 - Birth of David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate 1930 - Birth of Paul von Ragué Schleyer,...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:21 AM • 1 Comments
If the federal government aren't going to do something ...
Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences
WaPo reports: Five Western governors [California, Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico and Washington] agreed yesterday on a plan to cut their states' emissions of gases linked to global warming and to establish a regional carbon-trading system, though they stopped short of...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:09 AM • 1 Comments
February 26, 2007
Today in Science
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
February 26th 1638 - Death of Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician 1786 - Birth of François Arago, French mathematician 1799 - Birth of Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist 1814 - Birth of Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:44 AM • 0 Comments
Monday Mammal
Category: Mammals
Prehensile-tailed Porcupine Coendou prehensilis...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:50 AM • 0 Comments
February 25, 2007
File under bloody obvious
Category: Technology
Internet users with a home wireless connection check news and e-mail more than users with just a wired broadband connection, according to new research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. (source)...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:42 PM • 2 Comments
Today in Science
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
February 25th 1682 - Birth of Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist 1919 - Birth of Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist 1950 - Death of George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953 - Death...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:40 AM • 0 Comments
February 24, 2007
Victorious over the English
Category: Irish Rugby
After being defeated by the French two weeks ago, the Irish hammered the luckless English 43-13 to keep their Triple Crown hopes alive. Victory over Scotland at Edinburgh on March 10th will mean the title is theirs....
Posted by John Lynch at 7:31 PM • 5 Comments
A new date for chimp/human divergence
Category: Human Evolution
According to this paper, a hidden Markov model of the divergence between humans and chimps finds "a very recent speciation time of human-chimp (4.1 ± 0.4 million years)". This would put the last common ancestor with Pan after a...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:06 PM • 3 Comments
Today in Science
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
February 24th 1799 - Death of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist 1810 - Death of Henry Cavendish, English scientist 1812 - Death of Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician 1856 - Death of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician A relatively...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:30 AM • 2 Comments
February 23, 2007
Hamlet, mutton chops and William F. Buckley
Category: Anti-evolution • History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Over at Retrospectacle, Shelley briefly mentions a quote that William F. Buckley has been mumbling for aeons now. "I'm taken with the reply of an elderly scientific scholar to an exuberant young skeptic. 'I find it easier to believe in...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:31 PM • 11 Comments
Today in Science
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
February 23rd 1583 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist 1603 - Death of Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist 1855 - Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist 1922 - Death of Albert Victor Bäcklund,...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:41 AM • 0 Comments
February 22, 2007
Conservapedia evolves
Category: Anti-evolution
A few days ago I mentioned the Conservapedia entry on evolution as being notably bad. Well, it has changed over the past few days (but not for the better)....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:47 PM • 12 Comments
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