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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November 30, 2007
Category: Bits and Pieces
Bora reminds us that Open Lab 2007 is now in the judging phase - 329 entries now have to be whittled down to 50. Some unknown reader (thanks!) nominated my Pithecophobes of the World, Unite! Part I, Part II, Part...
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Category: Humanities & Social Science
Wet Evening in April The birds sang in the wet treesAnd I listened to them it was a hundred years from nowAnd I was dead and someone else was listening to them.But I was glad I had recorded for...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1974 - Lucy is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression....
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Category: Bits and Pieces • Humor
Well, it made me laugh! Rickrolling 101....
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November 29, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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November 28, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society of London. 1964 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner...
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November 27, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France....
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November 26, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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November 25, 2007
Category: Sports
The qualifying draw from World Cup 2010 in South Africa was made today. Europe’s Group 8 looks like a challenge for the Irish (current rankings in brackets): Italy (3) Bulgaria (18) Republic of Ireland (35) Cyprus (65) Georgia (77) Montenegro...
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Category: Maroon and Gold
The Sun Devils (9-2) dropped to thirteenth in the BCS after their loss to USC Thursday night. No surprises there. Had the second half been closer a higher ranking would have been possible. But no point dwelling in the past...
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Category: Humanities & Social Science
Births 1703 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist 1814 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist 1887 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist 1913 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist Deaths 1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist...
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November 24, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree separately observe the first recorded transit of Venus 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species. Births 1774 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer 1888 - Fredrick Willius, American...
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November 23, 2007
Category: Poetry
10,000 Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,this is the best season of your life. Wu Men [Picture: "Autumn Moon," Ansel Adams,...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Births 1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist 1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer 1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate 1887 - Henry Moseley, English physicist 1907 - Lars Leksell,...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:35 AM • 1 Comments
Category: Maroon and Gold
ASU dropped to 9-2/6-2 with a 44-24 home loss to an admittedly superior USC team. Disappointing overall, particularly because the running game was non-existent, and this means USC has bested us eight years in a row. A 17 point burst...
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November 22, 2007
Category: Intelligent Design
Peter Irons has made it known that Frank Beckwith (Baylor) resigned as a fellow of the Discovery Institute in July.The event went without notice from either Beckwith or the DI. Beckwith’s has in the past stated that he "has never...
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