Current Interests

Michael J. Vandeman, Ph.D.

Botany (how can unfertilized flowers produce fruit? how are the 3-needle leaves of the Ponderosa pine genetically determined? removing exotics)

Chemistry

Cognitive Science (why don't humans think?)

Consciousness

Conservation

Cooking (how use tamarind?)

Electricity

Electromagnetic Radiation

Environmental Science

Farming

Genetics

Habitat Restoration (Removing Invasive Non-Native Plants)

The Harm Done by Mountain Biking and Trail-Building

The Harm Done by Religion

Human-Free Habitat

Linguistics & Languages (Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese, Russian (see travel guide? roads in the Far East?), Spanish, Swedish, Tamil)

Literature (Robert Burns, Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Whitman, etc.)

Mathematics

Memory

Microbiology

Neurobiology

Noise Pollution

Physics, especially Quantum Mechanics

Sailing

Stopping Mountain Biking (costs vs. hiking?) and Trail-Building