February 25, 2008
Monday Mustelid #7
Category: Monday Mustelid
Marine otter, Lontra felina Gray 1843.[Image source]...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:01 AM • 2 Comments
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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February 25, 2008
Category: Monday Mustelid
Marine otter, Lontra felina Gray 1843.[Image source]...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:01 AM • 2 Comments
February 23, 2008
Category: Books • History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Vox Day - who writes for WorldNetDaily - has published a book, The Irrational Atheist which is available for free online. It’s an attack on Hitchens, Harris, Dawkins and other "new atheists". Brent Rasmussen over at Unscrewing the Inscrutable has...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:15 PM • 10 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces • Irish Rugby
Some quick takes as I’m still too busy to write anything significant ... With everything going on at the moment, I’ve been neglecting to post on the Irish rugby team’s performance in the Six Nations Championship. On the 7th they...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:58 PM • 0 Comments
February 22, 2008
Category: Humanities & Social Science
Bruce Gordon is expectorating on Dan Brooks’ post on the ID conference (see here). Remember that Brooks received an email after the meeting "stating that the ID people considered the conference a private meeting,and did not want any of us...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:43 PM • 7 Comments
February 18, 2008
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
It’s that time of the year - first set of papers to be graded. That, coupled with our job search and some other things means I’m not going to be able to post anything over the next seven to ten...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:04 AM • 0 Comments
February 17, 2008
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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February 16, 2008
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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February 15, 2008
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1946 - ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania....
Posted by John Lynch at 12:07 AM • 1 Comments
February 14, 2008
Category: Bits and Pieces
Those of us who teach can imagine what would be like. A lecture hall full of students. Some eager to learn, some who couldn’t care less. Some still in their teens, some returning to college after many years. All vibrantly...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:03 PM • 3 Comments
Category: In Their Own Words • Intelligent Design
In The Chronicle of Higher Education (12/21/01) William Dembski had this to say about his publication strategy: "I've just gotten kind of blase about submitting things to journals where you often wait two years to get things into print. And...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:48 AM • 5 Comments
Category: Humor
I don’t do Hallmark holidays, but in the spirit of sharing something on Valentine's Day, I give you this wonderful cartoon (source). Be sure and check this one out as well. Excellent stuff....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:52 AM • 1 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1961 - Lawrencium is first synthesized at the University of California. 2000 - NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid....
Posted by John Lynch at 12:11 AM • 0 Comments
February 13, 2008
Category: Bits and Pieces
Yesterday was Darwin Day. And a beagle won Best In Show at the Westminster Kennel Club. Coincidence? I think not....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:01 AM • 1 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. 1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. 2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe’s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093....
Posted by John Lynch at 12:18 AM • 0 Comments
February 12, 2008
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:38 AM • 0 Comments
February 11, 2008
Category: Monday Mustelid
Neotropical river otter, Lontra longicaudis Olfers 1818 [source]...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:37 AM • 4 Comments
