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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December 29, 2007
Category: Technology
Netscape has finally been taken off life-support. Born in October 1994, yet stunted in its growth since the late 90’s, the browser is set to finally expire on February 1st. It spawned Mozilla and thus ultimately Firefox. Please observe...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:51 PM • 3 Comments
December 27, 2007
Category: Bits and Pieces
The 2007 BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America has appeared. #9 is sadly on the money....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:31 PM • 4 Comments
December 22, 2007
Category: Bits and Pieces
Over at fark.com, there’s a thread on viral videos. Someone posted this classic which the original YouTube poster described as "The Crazy Indian Video with SUBTITLES THAT SAY WHAT I THINK THE VIDEO SOUNDS LIKE IN ENGLISH!!!" and is probably...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:46 PM • 8 Comments
December 17, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
I’m going to close things down here until the beginning of the New Year - a combination of projects I need to finish and family commitments mean that I will be posting little (if anything) for the next two weeks....
Posted by John Lynch at 12:00 AM • 0 Comments
December 16, 2007
Category: Intelligent Design
Twelve months ago I offered a roundup of the "advances" made by the intelligent design movement in 2006, a month-by-month roundup which differed significantly from the assessment of John West. Come on over to Stranger Fruit (where you can leave a comment) to read this year's roundup. See the Amazing Dembski make predictions that actually come to pass! Gasp at what we did not see from the ID movement!
Posted by John Lynch at 10:49 AM • 32 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
And while I’m at it rounding up the year ... Top ten posts (from any year) for visits this past year Strange beastie in Maine Polar bears are threatened Epic takedown of Pivar From sea to shining sea Last LOL...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:57 AM • 0 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science) • Intelligent Design
Births 1776 - Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist 1882 - Walther Meissner, German physicist 1901 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist Deaths 1687 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher...
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December 15, 2007
Category: Blog Memes and Such
Last year a few of us did this - basic idea is to reproduce the first sentence of the first post every month over the past year. I’m going to ignore "Today in Science" posts. Let’s see what we got...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:13 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Weirdness • Young Earth Creationism
An English backpacker who stabbed a Scottish traveller to death during a row about creationism and evolution was sent to jail for five years by a judge in Australia. Alexander York, 33, from Essex, had become involved in a...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:52 PM • 2 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Births 1852 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate 1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and Nobel Prize laureate 1916 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate 1923 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:34 PM • 0 Comments
December 14, 2007
Category: Poetry
I Am The People, The Mob I am the people-the mob-the crowd-the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:13 PM • 0 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1782 - The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its first test flight. 1900 - Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. 1962 - Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. Births...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science) • Intelligent Design
A couple of weeks back I noted I noted historian Mark Borrello’s engagement with John West regarding West’s particular spin on the history of eugenics. Now Mark has commented publicly. Though I repeatedly e-mailed the coordinator of the event and...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:40 PM • 0 Comments
December 13, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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December 12, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Births 1866 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize laureate 1892 - Herman Potočnik, Slovenian rocket engineer...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:24 AM • 0 Comments
December 11, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
The ancient Greeks said that the Spartans threw any deformed or sick newborns over a cliff, thus practicing eugenics. Indeed, Plato - certainly an individual with a soft spot for Sparta - himself hints at these practices in his...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:51 PM • 2 Comments
