Professor of Biology
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JFT's portrait by talented artist and dear friend,
L. Dennis Sears. |
In memory of my friend, Dave O'Drobinak, who died too soon, at Halloween, 2006. |
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Working with a colleague in the A&P labs. Photo 2005. |
JFT is a Professor in the APSU Biology Department. He was the instructor in the 3 semester Clinical Chemistry sequence from 1993 through 1998. He was appointed to be Program Director of the Medical Technology Program in July of 1998. He continued to teach the Urinalysis and Body Fluids course. He also taught the Pathology/Education/Research and Medical Serology courses. His clinical responsibilities included travel to clinical affiliate hospitals to observe senior MT students in their clinical rotations. He left the MT Program in 2002.
JFT's current academic assignments include teaching Human Anatomy & Physiology and Principles of Evolution.
For an excellent web site on "current events" related to health care, visit: The Antidote: Counterspin for Health Care and Health News.
PlaceboTelevision is a humorous site related to current medical events.
You might also like Science Blogs and SciTechDaily and The Science Fiction and Biology Blog and World Science and Olivia Judson's The Wild Side blog.
For an excellent web site on Evolution, visit Understanding Evolution.
For intelligent viewpoints (potentially including your own) on all aspects of life, try BigThink and Free Exchange on Campus.
JFT's PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (current and former)
American Association of University Professors
American Society of Clinical Pathologists - Medical Technologist - Associate
American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
The Association of Southeastern Biologists
Clinical Laboratory Management Association
National Center for Science Education
The Society for the Study of Evolution
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (formerly ASZ)
The Tennessee Academy of Science
Tennessee Society of Clinical Laboratory Science
JFT is a member of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and a member of the APSU chapter of the AAUP. JFT is the List Manager for AP-AAUP-List, the E-mail discussion group for the APSU chapter of AAUP. For information about the APSU Chapter of the AAUP and about AP-AAUP-List, use this link: AP-AAUP.
JFT is a life member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (PKP) and a member of the APSU chapter of PKP. JFT is the List Manager for PKP-List, the E-mail discussion group for the APSU chapter of PKP.
For information about the APSU Chapter #191 of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and about PKP-List, use this link: PKP-List.
Until Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1450s, there wasn't much for the average person to read, aside from inscriptions on buildings and coins. Scholars have estimated that there were only about 30,000 books in all of Europe when Gutenberg began printing his Bible,. Fifty years after that, the scholars estimate, the number of books had risen to between 10 million and 12 million. Have you read a good book lately?
James F. Thompson, Ph.D. MT(ASCP), thompsonj@apsu.edu
JFT's Home Page and its associated subpages are unofficial pages. Their content does not reflect the policy or opinion of Austin Peay State University or the APSU Biology Department.
These unofficial pages follow the guidelines of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s "safe harbor" provision, which holds that a Web site is not liable for any infringing material posted on it, as long as the site’s operators remove that material when asked to do so by a copyright holder. If there is any objection to the use of copyrighted material within these unofficial pages, please notify me and I will remove it post haste. JFT
My friend, Hunter Dice, shared this quote with me: "I can picture a world without war, without hate. And then I can picture us attacking that world--because they'd never expect it." Me, too, Hunter!
The meaning of life for twenty-first century college students -- the short version: What gives you the power to do the harder thing, to be disciplined and opt for delayed gratification? You forego the immediate pleasures in order to get good grades in order to get a good job in order to get into the nursing home of your choice.
For the biochemical details, read "The Pleasure (and Pain) of 'Maybe'" by Robert M. Sapolsky, neurologist and primatologist at Stamford University, in the September 2003 issue of Natural History magazine.
“The world we live in is an institutional response to our biology.” David Laibson, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Buddha, the Awakened One
"Man’s inhumanity to man is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are bad. It is also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who are good." Martin Luther King
What if there were no hypothetical
questions?
This site best viewed with an open mind!
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Are you familiar with The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster (2007)
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New "Intelligent Falling" Theory
go to top Last Updated: August 21, 2008.
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"You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which'll probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth." Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) in THE TWO JAKES (1990).
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"Learn to fail or fail to learn." old proverb
"A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over." author Mary Roberts Rinehart
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"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste." ~ Mark Twain
Don't forget to smell the flowers.
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"I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it." Thomas Jefferson, 1820.
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." James Madison
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"When enough people share a delusion, it loses its status as a psychosis and gets a religious tax exemption instead." Ronald de Sousa
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow
