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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August 31, 2007
Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences • Politics
Naomi Oreskes’ reply to Schulte got me thinking about the journal Energy & Environment, which appears to be the climate science equivalent of Rivista di Biologia (more here on that particular turkey). The journal was founded in 1990 and it...
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Category: Maroon and Gold
Ah, Labor Day weekend. Sun, fun, and the start of college football. ASU plays San Jose State (home of my Scibling Janet) tomorrow night - the first game under Dennis Erickson. There is should be little doubt that ASU will...
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Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences • Politics
Historian Naomi Oreskes responds to claims by endocrinologist Klaus-Martin Schulte that her 2004 study of the climate change literature is outdated and wrong.
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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August 30, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott....
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August 29, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung....
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August 28, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue. 1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men....
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August 27, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1962 - Mariner 2 launched to Venus. 2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth....
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August 26, 2007
Category: Bits and Pieces
The winged statue of victory [Nike] stands in front of smoke from fires in the village of ancient Olympia near the birthplace of the Olympic Games, in southwestern Greece.Source: Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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August 25, 2007
Category: Bits and Pieces
This made my head hurt. The following question was asked of Miss Teen South Carolina at the recent Miss Teen USA pageant. The answer (below the fold) is mind-blowingly incomprehensible and serves as a testament either to the problems with...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. 1981 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach...
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August 24, 2007
Category: Anti-evolution • Books • Pseudoscience
Many readers will by now have encountered the (frankly) frivolous law suit filed - for $15 million for Jeez sake- by Stuart Pivar against PZ Myers for negatively reviewing Pivar’s book Lifecode. Peter Irons - retired law professor at UCSD...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1831 - Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle. 2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is no longer considered a planet....
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August 23, 2007
Category: Anti-evolution • Weirdness • Young Earth Creationism
First we were "slime-snake-monkey-people". Now we’re "mutant randomites," and Johnson accuses us of name-calling! Mr Mote, meet Mr Eye. This just keeps getting better and better....
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1889 - First wireless message from a ship to the shore received. 1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite. 1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth...
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