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Mike Dunford was a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studied evolution. Life as an army spouse has since moved him on to Pensacola, where he's currently trying to figure out what to do next. While he's doing that, he writes stuff here, although not usually in the third person. 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.
November 28, 2006
Today's quote comes from Alfred Russell Wallace's first paper on evolution - his 1855 paper On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of Species. In addition to paving the way toward his later work on natural selection, this paper...
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November 27, 2006
I woke up early today, went downstairs, turned on the news, and very quickly discovered that I'd made it all of 5 minutes into my morning before making a bad decision. The lead-off story on MSNBC's top of the hour...
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This is why we need to get more people to spend more time thinking about science: "If an issue is not on the tips of their constituents' tongues, they'll say, 'Well, we'll deal with that tomorrow,'" - Al Gore, An...
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November 26, 2006
Bill Dembski seems to have decided that the sour grapes strategy is a winner - or at least less of a loser than anything else he's come up with lately. He's following up Denyse O'Leary's spectacularly bad series of peer...
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November 24, 2006
Another round of unholy wars seems to have broken out over the last few days. This particular round (again) focuses on the relationship between atheists and theistic evolutionists. The involved parties have broken into two groups, and I think both...
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Nothing too profound today - just something taken from a comic strip that's taped to the lab door. "That's the problem with nature. Something's always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let's go watch TV." Bob Watterson Calvin and...
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November 23, 2006
This Thanksgiving, there's a lot that I am thankful for. There's also a fair amount that I'm not all that thankful for. I'm thankful that as of the email I got from her last night, my wife is still in...
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"On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime." --Anonymous Back to science quotes tomorrow. Enjoy the holiday....
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November 22, 2006
There's an article in Friday's Washington Post about the ongoing strike by Houston, Texas janitors. (The same folks who were getting trampled by police horses the other day.) Part of the article tells the story of Ercilia Sandoval, a Salvadorian...
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In part to counteract the limited amount of time that I have available to write posts, I've decided to start a "quote of the day" series. Most of the quotes will be related to science or academics (or any of...
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