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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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September 30, 2007

Today in Science (0930)

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

Events 1977 - The Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are terminated. 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken. PZ Myers is ecstatic....

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Sun Devil football roundup

Category: Maroon and Gold

So let’s put this in perspective ... ASU hadn’t won in California in fourteen games. ASU hadn’t won in Stanford since 1997. Nine of the top-25 teams lost over the weekend. Colorado - whom ASU beat - went and won...

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September 29, 2007

Today in Science (0929)

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

Being a little quiet here ... combination of a looming Sunday deadline, grading, and the fact that I threw my back out on Thursday afternoon and am now in constant pain. Ah, the joys of life! There will, however, be...

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September 28, 2007

Today in Science (0928)

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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Friday Poem

Category: Poetry

Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue; I saw the danger, yet I walked...

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September 27, 2007

Today in Science (0927)

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

Events 1937 - Balinese Tiger (Panthera tigris balica) declared extinct after the last specimen was shot in 1925. 1956 - Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the...

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Childrens do learn. Presidents? Not so much.

Category: Bits and Pieces

In the past, he asked "Is our children learning?" Yesterday, when commenting on No Child Left Behind he said "As yesterday’s positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured" (source). No comment is...

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September 26, 2007

Scientific Literacy

Category: Education & CareersHumanities & Social Science

Just a quick note to point out that my colleague, Tom Martin, who occupies an office just down the corridor from me, has won the Second Annual Seed Science Writing Contest with his essay "Scientific Literacy and the Habit of...

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Today in Science (0926)

Category: Bits and PiecesHistory and Philosophy (often of Science)

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September 25, 2007

Today in Science (0925)

Category: Bits and PiecesHistory and Philosophy (often of Science)

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September 24, 2007

Oreskes offers updated response to Schulte

Category: Earth and Planetary SciencesPolitics

The following is posted on behalf of Naomi Oreskes: On September 3, I was contacted by Mr. Schulte, who asserted that statements made in my response - specifically that "The Schulte piece misrepresents the research question we posed," that "the...

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A pint of plain is your only man.

Category: Bits and Pieces

September 24th is also the anniversary of the birth (in 1724) of Arthur Guinness, the real patron saint of Ireland. In 1759 he opened the St James’s Gate brewery in Dublin and by 1778 he was brewing the elixir than...

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Today in Science (0924)

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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September 23, 2007

Play of the week

Category: Bits and Pieces

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Wilkins! A Real Aussie Snowflake?

Category: Bits and Pieces

Maybe our own little Aussie snowflake needs to change his image to this cantankerous little antipodean? Details here....

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College Football Rankings

Category: Maroon and Gold

W00t! ASU are back among the ranked teams - #23 in the AP and #25 in the USA Today poll. That means four Pac-10 teams are currently ranked - USC (#1), Cal (#6), Oregon (#11) and ASU (with UCLA also...

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