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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October 31, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
I’m off for the History of Science Society annual meeting in DC for the next few days, so posting will be scant or non-existent. I’m responding to a series of papers on Victorian critics of scientific naturalism and attending the...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:36 AM • 1 Comments
October 30, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Posted by John Lynch at 6:25 AM • 0 Comments
Category: Biology • Technology
This is so cool. A one-millimeter long spider (Cenotextricella simoni) encased in amber gets "digitally dissected" using Very High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography. The paper is online in Zootaxa 1623:47-53 but requires a subscription....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:34 AM • 2 Comments
October 29, 2007
Category: Education & Careers
Only three more days left for us to meet our challenge. So far we've only hit 34% of our goal and have raised $1,358 which will help 266 students. I've added some new proposals to our slate in the hope...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra (above), becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid....
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October 28, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Births 1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist 1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist 1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate Deaths 1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist 1841 - Johan August Arfwedson,...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:11 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Maroon and Gold
You are down 13-0 at the end of the first quarter. Down 20-14 at the half. And win the game 31-20. You are ASU playing Cal on Homecoming night in Tempe. An amazing game saw the Devils go 8-0 and...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:28 PM • 3 Comments
October 27, 2007
Category: Maroon and Gold
Big game tonight with #21 Cal coming to town for Homecoming to take on the #4 Sun Devils. With #5 Oregon defeating USC 24-17, tonight’s game will be huge for the Pac10 and the BCS standings. More later....
Posted by John Lynch at 6:21 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Biology • History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Stanford University Hospital is reporting that Arthur Kornberg, the 1959 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, has died aged 89. Kornberg received recognition for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)". His son, Roger,...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:51 PM • 1 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. Births 1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist Deaths 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist 1980 - John Hasbrouck...
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October 26, 2007
Category: Humor
Hat tip to the Bleiman Brothers. I am reminded of...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:34 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Poetry
on the fire suicides of the buddhists "They only burn themselves to reach Paradise." Mme. Nhu original courage is good, motivation be damned, and if you say they are trained to feel no pain, are they guaranteed this? is...
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Category: Humanities & Social Science
Events 1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox. 1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a...
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October 25, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Births 1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist 1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist Deaths 1647 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician...
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October 24, 2007
Category: Technology
Over at Page 3.14, there’s a post where us old farts reminisce about computing when we were young ’uns. I’m quoted as saying "My first computer was a ZX81 (Timex/Sinclair here in the US). Had 1k of memory. Taught myself...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:18 PM • 17 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1998 - Launch of the Deep Space 1 mission...
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