Hiatus
A combination of work and travel means I’ll be out of circulation for the next few weeks. See you sometime around June 5th....
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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.
May 20, 2008
A combination of work and travel means I’ll be out of circulation for the next few weeks. See you sometime around June 5th....
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Earth and Moon seen from Mars (source)...
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May 19, 2008
Category: Anti-evolution
Yet another anti-evolution bill dies on the vine - in this case Missouri. The DI is batting 0-3 at the moment. That's gotta hurt....
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Category: Monday Mustelid
American badger, Taxidea taxus Waterhouse 1839. (source)...
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May 17, 2008
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Philosopher Robert Solomon in Waking Life: The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century. I'm afraid...
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May 16, 2008
Category: Politics
And this guy is the current front-runner for McCain's running mate? Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had...
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Ox Transcended Whip, rope, self, ox - no traces left. Thoughts cannot penetrate the vast blue sky, Snowflakes cannot survive a red-hot stove. Arriving here, meet the ancient teachers. K’uo-an (trans. Stanley Lombardo) [image source]...
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May 15, 2008
Category: Technology
It's been a few years (2002, probably) since I used a Linux box regularly. Yesterday I dual-booted my laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" and everything works flawlessly. So now I'm asking - what are the essential software packages I...
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No sooner had I read this today: There is by now an entire book to be written about the way that "Munich," "appeasement," and "Churchill" have been ritually invoked, from Suez to Vietnam to Iraq, so often in false analogy,...
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Keith Olberman on Bush’s sacrifice of his golf game: "Mr. President," he was asked, "you haven’t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq? "Yes," began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our lives...
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