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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 18, 2009
Category: Bits and Pieces
(I was originally going to hold off posting this until May 31st, but there seems little point)I've been blogging here at Scienceblogs since January 2006, nearly three and a half years. During that time I have made many good...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:00 PM • •
Category: Science Education
From a report released by BIO: The Biotechnology Industry Organization: On average, only 28% of the high school students taking the ACT , which is a national standardized test for college admission , reached a score indicating college readiness for...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:32 PM • •
May 15, 2009
Category: Anti-evolution
NCSE has announced that two remaining anti-evolution bills have died in committee: Alabama & Missouri. To recap the year: Mississippi - dead in committee Oklahoma - dead in committee Iowa - dead in committee New Mexico - dead in committee...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:30 PM • 3 Comments •
Finished grading today, so the Spring semester is finally over. I'm out of here for a few weeks. See you sometime in June....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:00 PM • •
May 11, 2009
Category: Bits and Pieces
So I'm trying to simplify things in real life as I think I am suffering from information overload (among other things). First task was to clean up my Facebook friends. From here on, it's family, colleagues and (usually graduate) students....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:01 PM • 1 Comments •
May 10, 2009
Category: Bits and Pieces
Turns out that yesterday I posted my 2000th post here at Scienceblogs without even noticing it. Heh!...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:34 PM • •
Category: Anti-evolution
Back in December 2006 I referred to Francis Beckwith as an ID supporter. This resulted in he informing me that he "has never been much of fan [of] design arguments, ever [and that his] interest in the debate focuses on...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:27 PM • •
PZ has the tale of Larry, Moe, Curly, and Eagletosh. Worth a read....
Posted by John Lynch at 4:00 PM • •
Category: Anti-evolution
I spent this morning at a workshop for K-12 biology teachers. The workshop was organized by the School of Life Sciences here at ASU and gave some 20 students to interact with faculty regarding teaching evolution. My presentation was titled...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:06 AM • 1 Comments •
May 8, 2009
Category: Friday Felid
Margay, Leopardus wiedii Schinz 1821 (source)...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:57 AM • 1 Comments •
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