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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: Anti-evolution
Mark Chu-Carroll has done it so that you don't have to ... read the Dembski & Marks paper that I mentioned a few days back. Shorter MC-C: "Same old rubbish." Read his full verdict here.Update (5/11): Dembski "responds" (and apparently...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
The Tyndall Correspondence Project (of which I am a participant) has now gone online. Our aim is to follow in the footsteps of the Darwin Correspondence Project and transcribe the letters of the Irish physicist, John Tyndall. The site...
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Category: Bits and Pieces
This is kind of cool - pool shots in slow motion with thermal imaging. (Seen on fark.com)...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:16 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Math and Physics
Bob Henderson is an 80 year old retired electrical engineer who thinks "Albert Einstein was a dunce." So convinced is he of this that he has written a third book on the subject: Einstein and The-Emperor's-New-Clothes Syndrome: The Exposé of...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:46 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Math and Physics
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Category: Math and Physics
I was reminded of this by a recent post over at Crooked Timber. Cosma Shalazi's review of Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science [amz] is titled "A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity" - I'd...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:59 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Math and Physics
Next semester I will be teaching Einstein's own account of relativity (amaz) in my HON 172 class. It will be interesting to see how that goes as it's not the easiest text in the world. Given that, the following caught...
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