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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.
March 31, 2008
The basic incompetence of the Expelled producers continues. This morning I received an e-mail telling me that the scheduled screening (7pm on April 3rd) as been re-scheduled for 6pm on that date. Where the incompetence of these boyos comes in...
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I don’t watch NBA basketball. I don’t watch NCAA basketball. I used to play basketball in high school and played club basketball in college (Ireland doesn’t have the same college scene as here). The reason why I don’t watch is...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:45 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lutrogale perspicillata Geoffroy, 1826[image source]...
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March 30, 2008
This made me laugh if only because I used to row back in Ireland: In Ireland, it is not uncommon for university rowing teams to cancel practice because there is a swan in the river. Rowing teams tend to be...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:02 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 29, 2008
Matt Nisbet has coughed up yet another post on PZ and framing. It begins: You don’t have to be a social scientist to recognize that the distribution of opinion among people who comment at Scienceblogs is very different from the...
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If you have problems with heights, this may not be the job for you. (via BackReaction)...
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Seed has been running an interview with the British author Will Self whom I first encountered by reading his wonderful Great Apes, the cover of which - a mash-up of a human and ape - is above. Every time...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:44 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If it wasn’t enough that PZ is wondering why Ben Stein doesn’t have it in for Newton (what with his clear connection to Nazism), Orac now wonders: The above principles for eliminating the Jew from Nazi territory are clearly those...
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Troy Britain has done some poking around regarding the RSVP system that Expelled is using: I go through this to show that they apparently have a system (at least now) to distinguish between truly private screenings with, I would imagine,...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:45 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PZ linked to this earlier, but it’s just too good not to be posted here. Enjoy! One of PZ’s minions has transcribed the lyrics here....
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