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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.
Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
Seed asks "What's the best science TV show of all time?" As I grew up in Ireland in the 70's & 80's, my answer obviously features British science shows. Bora has already mentioned Don't Ask Me with the wonderful...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
I'm actually finding it remarkably easy to answer this question. I'd have to go for the period after 1660, in London, and thus during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Sure, you had to be a gentleman of privilege, but...
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Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
The mothership asks: How is it that all the PIs (Tara, PZ, Orac et al.), various grad students, post-docs, etc. find time to fulfill their primary objectives (day jobs) and blog so prolifically? Ann Coulter would answer that, in the...
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Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
This week's question is: Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why? I'm going to force myself to choose something totally outside the...
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Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
Here I answered out overlord's question of the week, namely: Since they're funded by taxpayer dollars (through the NIH, NSF, and so on), should scientists have to justify their research agendas to the public, rather than just grant-making bodies? This...
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Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
The mothership asks: Since they're funded by taxpayer dollars (through the NIH, NSF, and so on), should scientists have to justify their research agendas to the public, rather than just grant-making bodies? I reply: No. Every two years the NSF...
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Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
The mothership asks If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be? I answer ......
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Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
The mothership asks "Will the "human" race be around in 100 years?" I answer, yes. I'm not really too taken with the question, hence my brevity....
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Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
As Janet and RPM have noted, the mothership has initiated an "Ask A ScienceBlogger" feature - a weekly question that us SBers will (briefly) tackle. This week the question is "if you could cause one invention from the last hundred...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:29 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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