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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May 12, 2008
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
It seems Stuart Kauffman has come out as a pantheist. Discussing his new book Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion for New Scientist, he writes: The unfolding of the universe - biotic, and perhaps abiotic...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:39 PM • 6 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution • Humor
MartinC (who gave us the wonderful Bensteinian Rapsody) has been busy uncovering secret artifacts that further demonstrate the ambitions of the cdesign proponentsists. First there is some deleted scenes from Expelled! featuring such dialog as: VINCENT: You’ll dig it the...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:13 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Carnivores
Ratel, Mellivora capensis Schreber 1776...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:01 PM • 2 Comments
May 11, 2008
Category: Biology
Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, a trapdoor spider recently discovered in Alabama and named after Neil Young. Arachnophiles can click to enlarge - arachnophobes probably don’t want to....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:04 PM • 1 Comments
May 10, 2008
Category: Politics
16% of Indiana Republicans can't be that dumb, can they?
Posted by John Lynch at 3:15 PM • 6 Comments
May 9, 2008
Category: Politics
Believe it or not, on Wednesday, 177 Republicans disagreed that "the House of Representatives celebrates the role of mothers in the United States and supports the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day" this following a 412-0 vote in favor (H.Res...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:12 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution • Intelligent Design • Politics • Science Education
Not looking good for the cdesign proponentsists and their attempts to weaken science education by proposing "academic freedom" bills. First Florida. Now Alabama....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:40 PM • 7 Comments
May 6, 2008
Category: Biology • Evolution • Intelligent Design
Posted by John Lynch at 6:21 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Biology • Carnivores
Two-month old black Jaguar cub born in captivity at the Huachipa zoo in Lima, Peru. (click for larger version) photo source: AP Photo/Martin Mejia/Scanpix hat-tip: Green Expander....
Posted by John Lynch at 5:46 PM • 10 Comments
Category: Politics
Over at TfK, Josh more-or-less reads my mind about the rank stupidity of McCain and Clinton calling for a suspension of the gas tax: This is stupid, because it won’t actually cut prices (the price of a good like gasoline...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:50 AM • 11 Comments
May 5, 2008
Category: Carnivores
Burmese Ferret Badger, Melogale personata Saint-Hillaire 1831 Chinese Ferret Badger, Melogale moschata Gray 1831 There are two further putative species of ferret badger for which I’m unable to find suitable images: Everett’s ferret badger (Melogale everetti Thomas 1895) and...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:00 PM • 0 Comments
May 4, 2008
Category: Bits and Pieces • Humor • Politics
"Multiple world champion Oscar De La Hoya registered a unanimous decision victory over fellow American Steve Forbes in a non-title bout on Saturday." Huh?...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:57 AM • 9 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
I may be treading in hot water here but ... two years ago a colt named Barbaro broke a leg and was put into surgery while a nation apparently wept (here is what I said then). Yesterday I watched a...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:49 AM • 9 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces • Humor
If you haven’t already, you must check out Charles Darwin’s blog, if only for this: However in the dramatic presentations it is clear what science is for: it is to help the police elucidate which American has killed which other...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:29 AM • 1 Comments
May 2, 2008
Category: Anti-evolution
New Chick tract - have at it! Especially you, Tyler. Update: I see PZ beat me to this. *shakes fist*...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:11 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Poetry
Ox Forgotten Reaching home on the back of the ox, Rest now, the ox forgotten. Taking a nap under the noon sun, Whip and rope abandoned behind the hut. K’uo-an (trans. Stanley Lombardo) [image source]...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:25 PM • 0 Comments
