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.
November 29, 2007
Category: From the Right
Apparently, the Virginia Republican Party has been getting nostalgic for the good old days at the end of the Cold War. You remember those days, right? Ronald Reagan was saying things like, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" and...
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November 27, 2007
Category: Misc
I haven't always had as much concern about copyright infringement as I do now, but I've always considered it to be a given that copyright infringement involves taking something that doesn't belong to you without paying the owner. Taking...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 12:47 PM • 120 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2007
Category: Moral Flexibility
One of the joys of procrastination is that sometimes if you wait long enough, someone else really will take care of things. I mention that because Ed Brayton just did a good job dismantling Casey Luskin's latest whine about...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:44 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 25, 2007
Category: Religion
Verse one of Chapter 11 of the Letter of Paul to the Hebrews reads (in the King James translation of the Bible): "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." I mention...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 1:40 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2007
Category: Environment
You wouldn't necessarily know it from looking at most major American news sources, but there's a massive tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal right now, and it's heading right for one of the most vulnerable areas on the...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:55 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 12, 2007
Category: Do Something
Two unions representing professions involved in the entertainment industry are on strike right now - Broadway stagehands in New York, and writers for both big- and little-screen productions nationwide. These strikes - especially the writers' one - have stirred...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 9:20 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Church/State
The fine folks at the Discovery Institute aren't happy with tomorrow's PBS documentary on the Dover Intelligent Design case, and they're doing their best to make sure that everyone knows just how unhappy they are. They've been frantically tossing...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 2:37 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 9, 2007
Category: Accidental
I was just watching the Today Show a couple of minutes ago. They're getting ready to set up the Christmas Tree, and someone from the Center was just talking about their new, environmentally-friendly approach to the tree. Apparently, this...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 9:26 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 7, 2007
Category: Science and Politics
John Wilkins was browsing through the Convention on Biological Diversity's website, and decided to compile a listing of the countries that are not parties to the treaty. I replicated his experiment and came up with something similar. It's not...
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November 6, 2007
Category: Politics
In all of the fuss about the imminent confirmation of a man who says he can't judge whether or not strapping someone down and pouring water over them until they think they're drowning is torture, there's an important question...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:25 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 2, 2007
Category: Do Something
It's now the day after the DonorsChoose Challenge, and several things are clear. First, you people rock. This blog is not one of the highest-readership blogs in the Scienceblogs network. Most months, we're not even in the top half....
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November 1, 2007
Category: Church/State
It's not often that I start a post with an apology (that usually comes later) but I think I have to this time. Dr. Watson, I'm sorry that I've got your name in the same title as Westboro Baptist....
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