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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.
August 31, 2008
Category: Politics
Cindy McCain on Palin's experience: And, also, remember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So it's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here. Seriously....
Posted by John Lynch at 4:19 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 30, 2008
Category: Science Education
Sheril has just announced that Barak Obama has answered fourteen questions posed by the Science Debate 2008 team. I haven't had a chance to read his responses yet, so wander on over yourself to see what he has to say....
Posted by John Lynch at 4:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bits and Pieces
We had quite the storm here in the Valley on Thursday. Wind gusts up to 100 mph. Lots of rain. And more than 1,500 lightning strikes in a single hour. Round about 7pm we could see the lightning to the...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:48 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 29, 2008
Category: Politics
On August 10th, Karl Rove had the following to say about Tim Kaine who he wrongly assumed was to be Obama's choice for VP: With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:14 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The more I think about Obama's speech last night, the more I like it. As for Sarah Palin, I have little to add to what my stablemates have to say. That is all....
Posted by John Lynch at 7:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2008
Category: Blog Memes and Such
Via Cocktail Party Physics, a list of popular science books. Rules are simple: Bold those you've read in full, asterisk those you intend to read, add any additional popular science books you think belong on the list (I'll try and...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:42 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2008
Category: Humor
Seen on I-494 heading out of Minneapolis St-Paul Airport. Sweet! (source)...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:39 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2008
Category: Monday Mustelid
Pine marten, Martes martes L. (source) [Strictly speaking, #27 should be the Nilgiri marten, M. gwatkinsii, but I can't find any images.]...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2008
Category: Poetry
The Stoat Walking in the warmest afternoon this year has yielded yet, through slopes of whin that made the shadows luminous, and filled the slow air with its fragrance, we went down a narrow track, stone-littered, under trees which...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:56 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sports
Irish boxer Kenny Egan is in the light heavyweight final against Xiaoping Zhang as I type. Naturally, I can't see it live in this country ... instead I get to see a bunch of overpaid millionaires play basketball against Spain....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:57 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
