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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July 31, 2007
Category: Anti-evolution • History and Philosophy (often of Science) • Intelligent Design • Science Education • Young Earth Creationism
Sahotra Sarkar (Philosophy of Biology, University of Texas) has revived his blog in response to the creationist takeover of the Texas Board of Education. Sarkar is the author of Doubting Darwin? Creationist Designs on Evolution and thus will no doubt...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes. 1999 - Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector - NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft...
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July 30, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Births 1641 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist 1889 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist...
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July 29, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
I get back from Exeter later on today, but as it turns out will be departing up north for a short break from the heat of Phoenix. Blogging will recommence later this week. Below is your Today in Science....
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July 28, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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July 27, 2007
Category: Intelligent Design
Gert Kortoff has written a review of Behe's Edge of Evolution. He points out: Readers interested in "Intelligent Design Theory" will be disappointed. The reader won't find an exposition of the Intelligent Design Theory. Nine out of ten chapters are...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:37 AM • 3 Comments
Category: Conference Blogging • The Life Academic
It's just after noon here in Exeter and I'm getting ready to head off to lunch. Yesterday's session on multi-level selection was very interesting with Rick Michod (U of Arizona) giving a particularly though provoking paper on the transition to...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1921 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin. Births 1733 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer 1833 - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist 1848 - Loránd...
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July 26, 2007
Category: Conference Blogging • The Life Academic
Well I made it safely to England and the ISHPSSB meeting. Yesterday evening was spent in the pleasant company of Precious Little Snowflake and others. Good fun and good beer was had by all. Today the conference proper starts and...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1963 - Syncom 2, the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster. Deaths 1960 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist and co-discoverer of the Michaelis-Menten equations...
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July 25, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1978 - Birth of Louise Brown, the first "test tube baby". 1984 - Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the second woman in space and the first to perform a space walk....
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July 24, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Births 1794 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist Deaths 1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1986 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate 2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist...
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July 23, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal. 1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite....
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July 22, 2007
Category: Bits and Pieces • Intelligent Design • The Life Academic
Rains come, Lynch leaves, ID supporters are a no-show.
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Category: Bits and Pieces • Blog Memes and Such
So Orac is worth $3590 and Janet tunes in at $4875 Me? I’m...
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Category: Politics
Over at Obsidian Wings, Hilzoy has a thoughtful post on the lessons we should learn from the Iraq debacle, including #4: When the rest of the world thinks you’re crazy, it’s worth entertaining the possibility that they might be right....
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