Science, Policy, and Management:
In Friday's picture quiz, I posted a picture that I took that contained two Hawaiian Monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi), and asked you to take a guess at what percent of the total population of the species appears in the...
Posted on March 3, 2008 12:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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Posted on January 11, 2008 9:45 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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Posted on January 8, 2008 3:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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Posted on January 7, 2008 9:19 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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Posted on January 7, 2008 11:56 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last night, in Oslo, Al Gore delivered a simple, powerful message. It's a familiar message to anyone who has watched him speak since 2000, or watched his movie, or read his books. It's simply a call for nothing more...
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Posted on December 11, 2007 12:22 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on November 7, 2007 8:47 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As you are undoubtedly aware, this year's Nobel Peace Prize is being split between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore, in recognition of "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change,...
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Posted on October 12, 2007 12:20 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of the alleged facts that President Bush loves to point at when he's trying to justify his veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) expansion is that the new bill would have allowed New York to...
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Posted on October 8, 2007 11:24 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There are times when I wish I was a right-wing hack. If I was, I could let the title of this post stand just as it is, and attack the President for his lack of support for military families....
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Posted on October 3, 2007 6:51 PM • 2 Comments •
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. 
