jlynch | September 22, 2007Births
1715 - Jean-Ãtienne Guettard, French physician and scientist
1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer
1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist
1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer
1901 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1777 - John Bartram, American botanist
1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | September 21, 2007Another poem by Nizar Qabbani.
When I Love
When I loveI feel that I am the king of timeI possess the earth and everything on itand ride into the sun upon my horse.
When I loveI become liquid lightinvisible to the eyeand the poems in my notebooksbecome fields of mimosa and poppy.
When I lovethe water gushes from my fingersgrass grows on my tonguewhen I loveI become time outside all time.
When I love a womanall the treesrun barefoot toward me...
jlynch | September 21, 2007Events
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
Births
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1866 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
1926 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1874 - Jean-Baptiste Ãlie de Beaumont, French geologist
1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist…
jlynch | September 20, 2007
Events
1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition.
Births
1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist
Deaths
1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist
jlynch | September 20, 2007John Mashey has informed me that the much bally-hooed paper by Klaus-Martin Schulte (see here and here) will not now be published by Energy & Environment. More details at DeSmogBlog. Feel free to Digg! the DeSmog post.
jlynch | September 18, 2007Births
1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist
1889 - Sadie Delany, American physician
1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer
1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist
1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist
jlynch | September 18, 2007Births
1819 - Leon Foucault, French physicist
1907 - Edwin McMillan, Chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1951 - Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
Deaths
1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist
1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | September 16, 2007Events
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
Births
1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist
Deaths
1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist
jlynch | September 15, 2007Births
1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist
1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist
1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1893 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist
1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist
1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist
jlynch | September 15, 2007Events
1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
Births
1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist
1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist
1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1596 - Leonhard…
jlynch | September 14, 2007PZ raises an excellent point about the hysteria being shown by Dembski and others regarding the "Evolutionary Informatics Lab" that Robert Marks was trying to host at Baylor. The Lab, you will remember, does not actually exist in any material sense - it is merely a webpage (currently here) which features the work of three individuals: Marks (at Baylor), Tomas English (with no affiliation), and William Basener (at Rochester Institute of Technology). There is no physical lab and never was. It’s a webpage that can be hosted anywhere (even the Discovery Institute). Marks and Dembski should have…
jlynch | September 14, 2007Ah, Friday. Supposedly the day I can devote to doing some research, but instead I’m attempting to distil six hours of lectures on Darwin’s life into one easy to digest three hour bolus. In short, I’m going to be busy for a while.
Around the ScienceBlogs, I will note that Mark, PZ and John Wilkins offer some musings on reforming the Office of Technology Assessment. Tim mentions that a new survey puts the death toll in Iraq at over one million. Chad weighs in on the "scandal" regarding the NE Patriots, while Ed comments on a more substantive scandal at UC-Irvine’s law school.
jlynch | September 14, 2007Yes, it has been a long time.
My Lover Asks Me
My lover asks me: "What is the difference between me and the sky?" The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky.
Nizar Qabbani
jlynch | September 14, 2007Events
1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
Births
1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer
1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist who worked on Darwin’s specimens from the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1909 - Peter Scott, British naturalist
1936 - Ferid Murad, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer
1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist
jlynch | September 13, 2007I predict this may ruffle a few feathers. I don’t have time to comment myself, but I’m sure PZ, Jason and other can more than adequately weigh in. Avery Cardinal Dulles writes in the theo-con journal First Things:
Science, however, performs a disservice when it claims to be the only valid form of knowledge, displacing the aesthetic, the interpersonal, the philosophical, and the religious.
The recent outburst of atheistic scientism is an ominous sign. If unchecked, this arrogance could lead to a resumption of the senseless warfare that raged in the nineteenth century, thus undermining the…
jlynch | September 13, 2007Events
1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
Births
1851 - Walter Reed, American physician and biologist
1886 - Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist
Deaths
1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
jlynch | September 12, 2007Before we get to your TiS, a quick apology for things being relatively quiet here. A combination of class preps and service have kept me abnormally busy. Hopefully things will clear up come the weekend.
Events
1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1959 - The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
1992 - NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board is Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
Births
1725 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer…
jlynch | September 10, 2007Events
1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1997 - Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
Births
1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist
1877 - James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist
Deaths
1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer
1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist
jlynch | September 10, 2007Events
1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
Births
1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician
1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist and Nobel laureate
1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist
Deaths
1749 - Ãmilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist
1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist and Nobel laureate
1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist and Nobel laureate
jlynch | September 9, 2007Did Klaus-Martin Schulte plagiarize his response to Naomi Oreskes from Christopher Monckton? Looks like it. You be the judge.
Is Monckton hanging around the comments of this blog, trying to scare people. Looks like it. You be the judge.