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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.
August 30, 2008
Category: The Blog
I'm sitting in the Faraday Theatre at the Royal Institution right now, at the Nature Network's Science Blogging 2008 conference. There are about 100 people in the room, 90% of whom I don't recognize at all. 90% of the...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 5:04 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 28, 2008
Category: Presidential
The Democratic nominee for President is giving one hell of a kick ass speech at the moment. I really hope this is the Obama we see for the rest of the campaign....
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:28 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Travel
Only now, as I sit here in my hotel room eating a cheddar and roasted tomato sandwich, with a packet of Worcester Sauce crisps on the side, is the fact that I'm in London starting to sink in. In...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 12:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2008
Category: Picture Posts
Congrats to John Lynch for quickly coming up with the correct answer to the previous picture quiz. The man in the statue is Richard Owen; the statue sits inside the Natural History Museum in London. Since that quiz was...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 9:46 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Picture Posts
Just the statue of some dude....
Posted by Mike Dunford at 1:06 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Accidental
I went birding again this morning. There's a nice, peaceful nature trail on base that's usually deserted if you're there before 7:30. The trail runs near the shoreline, and there's enough beach access to make it easy to watch...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:56 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2008
...and all the whos down in whoville, the tall and the small......
Posted by Mike Dunford at 8:32 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anti-Evolutionism
If you're going to read anything today, you should read Amy Harmon's article on teaching evolution in Florida. I haven't taught high school, but I've had similar experiences teaching evolution in an introductory level college course. Evolution shouldn't be...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2008
Category: Animals
I've only recently started birding with any sort of regularity or enthusiasm, and I'm not all that good at it yet. I snapped a couple of pictures of a bird in flight the other day, and I've been trying...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:24 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Flaming Small-Minded Stupidity
I know I'm far from the first to go off on this commercial, but... No, vehix.com commercial lady, you cannot go online and "literally take a test drive". It doesn't work that way. The tubes that connect your computer...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 12:24 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
