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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: Blog Memes and Such
It's that time of the year again, the time to complete the end of year blog meme. Here is last year's entry. Rules are simple - post the first line of the first post for every month. I've omitted my...
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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...
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Category: Blog Memes and Such
Via Chad, a list of 100 food items. You are supposed to bold the ones you have eaten (55) and strike-through those you'd never try (4)....
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Some of the other SciBlings are doing it, so why not ... My compatibility with the current gaggle of presidential candidates: Kucinich (95) Gravel (90) Richardson (82) Edwards (81) Dodd (78) Clinton (74) Obama (72) Biden (72) Paul (61) McCain...
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Last year a few of us did this - basic idea is to reproduce the first sentence of the first post every month over the past year. I’m going to ignore "Today in Science" posts. Let’s see what we got...
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Since PZ got it from Wilkins, I might as well chime in. I bold those I’ve read and italicize those I’ve partially read....
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You’re 50% Irish You’re probably less Irish than you think you are...But you’re still more Irish than most. How Irish Are You? This despite being born, and spending 25 years, in Ireland. Just goes to prove how dumb these...
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So Orac is worth $3590 and Janet tunes in at $4875 Me? I’m...
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Which LOLcat are you? I are serious cat (37% affectionate, 33% excitable, 51% hungry). Who haz my sandwich? Hungry for knowledge in any internet forum, you demand decorum. Any off-topic remarks, absurd statements, or tomfoolery on the interweb is deeply...
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Easing myself into blogging with the Personality Defect Test. Apparently I’m a Robot: 100% Rational, 42% Extroverted, 14% Brutal and 0% Arrogant. Your exact opposite is the Class Clown. Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser,...
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