Mike Dunford is a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studies evolution. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with.
July 31, 2006
Last week, I wrote two posts on the differences between nation building and nation rebuilding. Toward the end of the second, I said this: I think that a large portion of the problem here is not that we don't have...
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July 28, 2006
...and he is us. Once again, it apears that someone in the service has used the incredibly stupid "don't ask, don't tell" policy as a weapon against another service memeber, resulting in the army forcing out someone that they need....
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July 27, 2006
A brief conversation in the car today: Me: I don't know why, but for some reason grusome threats work with kids. They believe them less the more grusome they get, but they listen a lot more. My mom: Yeah, I...
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July 25, 2006
After following the links back and watching the video clip of Santorum's comment, I discovered something that was almost shocking: he actually said other things in response to the same comment that were even dumber.
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After following the links back and watching the video clip of Santorum's comment, I discovered something that was almost shocking: he actually said other things in response to the same comment that were even dumber.
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July 24, 2006
Joseph responded to my last post with a thought-provoking comment on my blog, and added a brief post to his own noting the exchange and wondering if there is any neutral third party who might want to weigh in on...
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My wife, an army physician, was deployed in Afghanistan from July, 2004 through April, 2005. While there, she learned quite a bit about the medical situation in the country. In this post, I'm going to draw heavily from her experiences and pictures.
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July 21, 2006
Take a look at this post over at Stranger Fruit. The Santorum quote is good, but the outfit Santorum is wearing in the picture is better. He looks like a refugee from a bad 80s Televangelism special....
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The paperwork for deployment isn't limited to the soldier, either. Us spouses get to do some too. Yesterday, I had to update what is probably the most disturbing form I've ever encountered: the "spouse preference form."
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July 20, 2006
Over at The Loom, Carl Zimmer tells us that a group of academics and a Conneticut biotech company are about to begin sequencing the Neandertal genome. Sequencing the Neandertal genome gets them all of the possible "Damn, that's cool!" points,...
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July 19, 2006
OK, I've been behind the times lately. I've got to admit it. I haven't had the time to check the news as much as usual. I haven't been able to keep up with the blogs. I have virtually no idea...
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July 16, 2006
Ever have an almost perfect day? I'm not talking about a perfect day - there are lots of those. I'm not talking about the kind of day where everything was fantastic, right up until cousin Jimmy puked in the punchbowl...
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July 10, 2006
A few of you might have noticed a drop-off in posting activity over the last week or so. My wife is preparing to deploy to Iraq - we've got a couple of weeks left before she heads out. She took...
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July 8, 2006
Over at The Island of Doubt, James Hrynyshyn has a brief post up about this Guardian article. The article in the Guardian discusses a large rockfall that is expected to happen in the next few days - about two million...
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July 5, 2006
I'm not the biggest Hillary Clinton fan on the planet, but this time she almost got it right. In a statement yesterday, Clinton said that while she hopes that Joe Lieberman wins his senate primary in August (OK, that part...
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July 3, 2006
Category: Education
The ScienceBlogs Bloggers' Challenge was wildly successful, raising well over 30,000 dollars in 15 days to fund education projects at individual schools. The challenge here at The Questionable Authority was also successful, bringing in a bit over $650.00, meeting...
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