tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871542942842750523.post2256395588454700646..comments2023-07-24T10:40:57.739-04:00Comments on dechronization: Leigh Van Valen (1935-2010)Glorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17707197225963721646noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871542942842750523.post-66123310327567619402012-07-22T21:28:11.592-04:002012-07-22T21:28:11.592-04:00Just for future visitors to this post, I'd jus...Just for future visitors to this post, I'd just like to point out that Leigh's songs are available at the website which also collects issues of his self-published journal.<br /><br />http://leighvanvalen.com/songs/dwbapsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17606476387441191531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871542942842750523.post-70394036318177096442011-01-04T11:46:47.048-05:002011-01-04T11:46:47.048-05:00leigh’s greatest achievement is what he called “th...leigh’s greatest achievement is what he called “the 3rd law of natural<br />selection” (1976; van valen meant evolution by natural selection when<br />writing “natural selection”), an unsuccessful but brilliant and<br />valiant attempt to overcome the mindless story-telling that<br />characterizes the modern “natural selection” casuistry industry.<br /><br />search for “van valen” in the link below, second posting by erpiu.<br />http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/dick-lewontin-revi....<br /><br />PS. i heard from several uofc graduate students at a conference that<br />over the last few decade leigh was harassed systematically by his<br />former ecoevo chair, c-i.wu. this creep wanted to take away leigh's<br />lab space to install a paper churner who would bring fed.grant money<br />to the uofc's parasitic bureaucrats. the harassment included hiding<br />leigh's excellent teaching evaluations to deny him any defense<br />arguments. i also heard that leigh lost his space after the creep<br />resigned due to a scandal involving fraud by a top clerical officer.<br />sounds like disneyland !? ;)<br /><br />i also was told that leigh's papers have been claimed by the american<br />association for the history of science [or something like that], and<br />that the association offered to make paper shredders available for his<br />his colleagues when they retire.erplushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576849481332568377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871542942842750523.post-83274268779086210522010-10-31T20:13:37.697-04:002010-10-31T20:13:37.697-04:00The New York Times ran this obituary today: http:/...The New York Times ran this obituary today: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/us/31valen.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/us/31valen.html</a>Poletarachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849603139224913056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871542942842750523.post-39613493924933798792010-10-23T15:59:03.634-04:002010-10-23T15:59:03.634-04:00@Katrina
Thanks for visiting our page. Please acc...@Katrina<br />Thanks for visiting our page. Please accept our condolences on your loss.<br /><br />I'm trying to dig up an old document that included some of your dad's songs. I'm not sure who originally produced this document, but it looked like an old xerox of something produced on a type-writer with pasted on drawings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. I had a blast performing a few of these songs with my PhD adviser at a party during graduate school a number of years ago.<br /><br />How would you feel about making a digital version of his compositions available on-line? I haven't been able to find anything that's already out there, but perhaps I haven't looked hard enough...Glorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17707197225963721646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871542942842750523.post-13884947552113332182010-10-22T12:01:49.535-04:002010-10-22T12:01:49.535-04:00Thanks for your comments and for the wonderful ori...Thanks for your comments and for the wonderful original post. It's been great to wander out on the net and read the nice things that people are saying about my Dad.<br /><br />Some people have found the idea of his person (small and overpoweringly intellectual) incompatible with the idea of procreation, but how could an evolutionary biologist not have kids? <br /><br />The Piles of books and papers were a constant presence in his life, as were songs of every variety.<br /><br />-Katrina Van ValenUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02763284361178175986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871542942842750523.post-43147138591156527202010-10-19T17:03:55.589-04:002010-10-19T17:03:55.589-04:00Van Valen was an incredibly original thinker. It i...Van Valen was an incredibly original thinker. It is a dream of mine to one day publish a paper in Evolutionary Theory as a sort of tribute.mwpennellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02523892313236801738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871542942842750523.post-38616883618979541242010-10-19T10:16:45.738-04:002010-10-19T10:16:45.738-04:00Van Valen was definitely one of evolutionary biolo...Van Valen was definitely one of evolutionary biology's most interesting characters. Does everybody remember the dinosaur sex songs? Personally, I'll never forget the interview I had with him in 2006. We sat knee to knee in his cramped office, surrounded by books piled so high that we would have been buried alive by the slightest tremor. He told me about a book he was working on about energy.Glorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17707197225963721646noreply@blogger.com