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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.
March 31, 2008
Category: Anti-Evolutionism
Last week, SUNY Stony Brook neurosurgeon and anti-evolution mouthpiece Michael Egnor decided to keep driving on with his "you don't need to understand Darwinian evolution to understand antibiotic resistance" crusade. His post is - predictably enough - a mass...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 2:44 PM • 60 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2008
One of several reasons that my posting frequency has been low lately is that my internet connection has been miserable. As in dial-up speed miserable. As in so slow that the online tools that measure connection speed have been...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 9:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2008
Category: The Homefront
It's been just over 5 years since the start of the Iraq war, and we've just passed another of those morbid little milestones that get so much attention in the press. This particular milestone has a nice round number...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 6:15 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2008
Category: Accidental
PZ Myers got expelled from the line to see the movie Expelled tonight, apparently for the crime of actually being PZ Myers. That's definitely ironic, and possibly hypocritical. His family and his guest were allowed to go in and...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 2:19 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2008
Category: Picture Posts
There's an island visible in the picture below. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the island, it's location, it's relationship to science, and (for extra credit) its relationship to American pop culture. The answer...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 2:05 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Flaming Small-Minded Stupidity
I'm not Zuska, but I suddenly find that I've got an almost uncontrollable urge to puke on someone's shoes. There's a new breaking story out about Hillary Clinton, junior senator from New York, and Democratic Presidential candidate. It's so...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:23 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2008
Category: Picture Posts
In Saturday's photo quiz, I posted a very cropped version of a picture, and asked people to identify the item that's in there. This was simultaneously one of the most and least successful photo quizzes I've posted so far....
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 15, 2008
Category: Picture Posts
This photo quiz is a bit different from the others I've done so far. Instead of giving you a full picture, I'm going to put up a piece of the image and a hint. Your mission (should you choose...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 1:45 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 2008
Category: Anti-Evolutionism
Dr. Michael Egnor, of SUNY Stony Brook and the Discovery Institute, doesn't think that evolution is relevant to trying to figure out how to combat the spread of antibiotic resistance. The interesting areas of research, he believes, lie in...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 3:12 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2008
Category: Moral Flexibility
Someone once pointed out that when a dog pisses on a fire hydrant, it's not committing an act of vandalism. It's just being a dog. It's possible to use that analogy to excuse a creationist who takes a quote...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 3:47 PM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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