Alan Davies (born December 22, 1945) is a British professor of mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire.
 He obtained a first class honours degree in mathematics (1968) from Southampton University.
 He followed that with a master's degree, with distinction, in structural engineering (1974) and a doctorate in numerical computation (1989) from Imperial College.
 He has spent most of his working life as an academic at the University of Hertfordshire (UH), formerly the Hatfield Polytechnic.
 He had short spells in industry working as a research engineer in the aircraft industry and as a process engineer in the food industry.
 During his time in Hatfield his major activity has been teaching mathematics to undergraduates and postgraduates in mathematics, science and engineering.
 He has also been engaged in research in numerical computation.
 In 1992 he became Head of the Department of Mathematics and was appointed Professor of Mathematics and, in 2004, the Department merged with Physical Sciences and Alan was appointed head of the School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics.
 During his time as HoD he became increasingly involved with outreach activities with both schools and the general public.
 He retired from his full-time post in 2006 and is currently Professor Emeritus in mathematics and is currently a London Mathematical Society Holgate Lecturer.
Mark Perakh (Russian: Марк Пэрах ; "perach" (פֶּ֫רַח) is the Hebrew word for "flower"; born "Mark Yakovlevich Popereka" in 1924, Kiev, Ukraine, died 7 May 2013 in Escondido, California), was a professor emeritus of Mathematics and statistical mechanics at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California.
Isamu Jordan (September 28, 1975 – September 5, 2013) was an African American journalist, musician, and professor.
 When he was 15 years old, he joined the staff of "The Spokesman-Review", where he wrote articles for "Our Generation", the teen section of the newspaper.
 After earning a Bachelor's degree in English and Journalism, he returned to the paper, where he wrote articles about music and pop culture.
 He also wrote and edited articles for the weekly news magazine "Spokane7", which provided coverage on local entertainment, art and culture, dining, and sporting events.
 As a musician, he was a member of the band The Dead Casuals and was known for establishing the hip hop orchestra, Flying Spiders, in which he was the lead vocalist.
 As the creator, producer, and director of "The Som Show", Jordan provided booking support and concert promotions for local bands and music artists, while his multimedia music website featured artist profiles, events, and venues, along with videos and concert reviews.
 Spokane's Online Music Awards, known as The Sommy Awards, honored local bands and musicians through nominations made through his website.
 In addition to his background in journalism and music, Jordan was an adjunct professor and Program Director of Intercultural Student Services at Whitworth University.
Donald Lyman Burkholder (January 19, 1927 – April 14, 2013) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to probability theory, particularly the theory of martingales.
 The Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality is co-named after him.
 Burkholder spent most of his professional career as a professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
 After his retirement in 1998, Donald Burkholder remained a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a CAS Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
 He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
"Ronald Charles Purcell" (October 5, 1932 – September 7, 2011) was an American guitarist, with degrees from the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, California State University, Northridge.
 He was Professor Emeritus of the Department of Music at California State University, Northridge and Director of the International Guitar Research Archive.
 His major teachers included Andrés Segovia, Emilio Pujol, Macario Santiago Kastner, Alirio Diaz and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, whose "Hommage to Purcell", Op. 170, No. 38 is dedicated to him.
George A. Bray is an American obesity researcher.
 As of 2016, he is a University Professor emeritus and formerly the chief of the division of clinical obesity and metabolism at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) in Baton Rouge.
 He is also a Boyd Professor emeritus at PBRC, and a professor of medicine emeritus at the Louisiana State University Medical Center.
Stephen L. Harris (born 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Religious Studies at California State University, Sacramento.
 He served there ten years as department chair and was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
 He received his MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University.
 Harris is a member of the American Academy of Religion, a fellow at the Westar Institute, was a fellow of the controversial Jesus Seminar, and has authored several books on religion, some of which are used in introductory university courses.
Gregor Michel Cailliet is an American scientist who studies the ecology of marine fishes.
 He is professor emeritus at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, part of The California State University, having officially retired in 2009.
 Cailliet received a B.A. and Ph.D. from University of California at Santa Barbara.
 He is the author of the books "Fishes: A field and laboratory manual on their structure, identification, and natural history" (ISBN  ) and "Everyman's Guide to Ecological Living" (New York, Macmillan: 1971), as well as many journal articles.
Esteban Villa (born August 3, 1930, in Tulare, California) is a nationally recognized artist and muralist.
 A professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, his teaching career began in 1962 at the high school level and includes assignments at Washington State University, D–Q University, University of California, Davis, and numerous lecture and slide presentations, art exhibits and mural projects at universities mainly in California and surrounding states.
 He has served as an art consultant to schools and organizations including Centro de Artistas Chicanos, and has done art programs in the prison system.
 He is a founding member of the Royal Chicano Air Force, a collective of artists, professors and students, which was formed amid the Chicano "Movimiento"'s push for social and political rights.
The Panda's Thumb is a weblog on the creation-evolution controversy from a mainstream scientific perspective.
 In 2006, "Nature" listed it as one of the top five science blogs.
 It is written by multiple contributors, including Wesley R. Elsberry, Paul R. Gross, Nick Matzke, PZ Myers and Mark Perakh, many of whom also have complementary weblogs at ScienceBlogs.
 The blog takes its name from The Panda's Thumb, the pub of the virtual University of Ediacara, which is named after the by Stephen Jay Gould, which in turn takes its title from the essay "The Panda's Peculiar Thumb", which discusses the Panda's sesamoid bone, an example of convergent evolution.

Question: Mark Perakh, professor emeritus of Mathematics at California State University, wrote articles for which creation-evolution controversial weblog?
Answer: The Panda's Thumb