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profile.jpg 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.



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January 31, 2008

Mental Health and the Rapidly Breaking Army

Category: "Supporting" the Troops

It's safe to say that 2007 wasn't the best year of US Army 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside's life. She started off the year with a bullet wound to her torso that damaged, among other things, one lung, her liver,...

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January 27, 2008

Fear and Loathing from the Discovery Institute

Category: Anti-Evolutionism

Very early this morning, the Discovery Institute's Rob Crowther posted an article over at the DI's "why's everyone always picking on us" blog. I'm not exactly sure what inspired Rob to get some work done late on a Saturday...

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January 24, 2008

Assessing Diversity in the Past

Category: Biology

Over at Evolving Thoughts, John Wilkins has a post that criticizes a recently-published journal article. Normally, I agree with John - in fact, if it's true that the best measure of someone's intelligence is how often their views match...

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January 23, 2008

The Dissent from Darwinism List - again.

Category: Anti-Evolutionism

Over at the Discovery Institute's blog, Rob Crowther is playing up the "Dissent from Darwinism" list. Again. The list is nothing new. They've been working on it for several years now, and have managed to accumulate "over 700" signatures...

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January 19, 2008

Curse You, Squid Baron!

Category: Truly Misc

Unlike many of the denizens of ScienceBlogs, I'm not in North Carolina for the 2nd Annual ScienceBlogging conference. I figured that any party that PZ Myers isn't at isn't worth attending. Now, I find that he's gone and snuck...

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January 18, 2008

Deploying the Injured and Breaking the Army.

Category: "Supporting" the Troops

Via today's Daily Kos Cheers and Jeers, I learned about a story in yesterday's Denver Post that details allegations that the Army is deploying troops who should be left at home (I missed Olbermann's take on it last night)....

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Recount Redux

Category: Presidential

It's been a couple of days since I posted on the New Hampshire recount. At the time, I fully expected that I wouldn't do another post on the topic, but a couple of things that have happened since then...

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January 16, 2008

Machine Votes, Hand-Counted Votes, and the Willie Sutton factor.

Category: Presidential

In the week since the New Hampshire voting, a number of people have become increasingly concerned about some of the things that they've seen in the results. Two things, in particular, have gotten a lot of attention. The first...

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January 14, 2008

Learning about the Messenger

Category: Science

Today's big science news is the Messenger flyby of Mercury. The Messenger spacecraft is scheduled to do a flyby of the planet about four hours from now, en route to it's final destination - Mercury - which it will...

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January 11, 2008

Somewhere, Yossarian is Laughing. Or: How Not to Fund Stem Cell Research at the NIH

Category: Medicine

The Bush Administration has once again managed to reach new levels of self-parody. This time, the subject is stem cell research, and they've taken a position on funding new research that incorporates the classic Catch-22 problem. Sadly, though, the Catch-22 lacks anything that bears the faintest resemblance to humor when it's used to block funding for potentially lifesaving research.

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January 9, 2008

Last Night's Winners and Losers.

Category: 2008

As the dust settles in New Hampshire, people are starting to talk about the winners and losers, and what it all means in the grand scheme of the election. Some are looking for excuses reasons why Obama didn't actually...

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January 8, 2008

Coralline Algae and Global Warming

Category: Biology

Over the last couple of decades, a great deal of research has been done on the effect of global warming on coral reefs. The vast majority of that research has focused on the currently observed and potential future effects...

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Happy Birthday, Alfred Russel Wallace.

Category: Biology

Today is the 185th anniversary of Alfred Russel Wallace. He's best known, of course, as the young(ish) scientist who, while recovering from malaria somewhere in Indonesia, independently came up with the same ideas about evolution that Darwin had been...

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January 7, 2008

The Science Advisor

Category: Science, Policy, and Management

Chris Mooney's recently-published article in Seed magazine has stirred a bit of discussion about the role of the Presidential Science Advisor, and just who would be a good choice for that position. Of the two questions, the first is...

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The Wall Street Journal, John Edwards, and the Politicizing the Nataline Sarkisyan Case.

Category: Medicine

Today's Wall Street Journal has a page A1 article (and accompanying blog post) about John Edward's decision to invoke the Nataline Sarkisyan case in his campaign-trail discussions of health care. Sarkisyan, you may remember, was the 17-year-old California girl...

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Vacation's over.

Category: The Blog

I haven't been blogging much over the last couple of weeks, for a variety of reasons. But it's a new year, a couple of side products that were sucking away my will to live have been wrapped up, and...

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