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Ebola and Tobacco: A Teachable Moment
I’ll get back to misconception Monday posts next week, but when Genie Scott sent me this idea for a post, I couldn’t resist it. If you’ve been following the news, you may have seen reports that a potential Ebola therapy, cultured in tobacco plants, has been used on two Americans that contracted…
Answer Monday!
This past week on Fossil Friday, I gave you a fossil from our Fossil Fan, Dan Coleman. Dan told us that he wasn't quite sure what it was, but he had some thoughts. You all had a lot of great guesses too. Several people thought it was some sort of vertebrate--a fish- or reptile-like creature with…
NCSE's Grand Canyon Trip 2014
July 3 — July 11, 2014 The 2014 rafters Back row (left to right): Amanda Vigneau, Lora Teitler, Al Pierce, Richard Myers, Victoria Myers, Bruce Millies, Sandra Cattell, Andre LaChance, Ronald Palinka, Steve Newton, Forbes Alcott (behind),…
Fossil Friday!
  This week on Fossil Friday, I bring you a true fossil mystery from Fossil Friday Fan Dan Coleman! Dan tells me that he found this specimen on the Taylor Ridge I-75 road cut in Ringold, Georgia, and it dates from the late Ordovician to early Silurian.  He couldn't figure out what it…
Climate Smart & Energy Wise (Part 1)
Since the end of the last Ice Age some 14,000 years ago, the Earth's human population has risen from at best a few million to well over seven billion, with projections of 9.6 billion by 2050. It is no surprise, simply by our sheer numbers, that humans have become a force of nature. (Excerpt…
Five Quibbles for Blanchard
Over at The Week, Keith Blanchard recently contributed a piece under the headline “Why you should stop believing in evolution,” with the subhead, “You don’t believe in it—you either understand it or you don’t.” The prose is engaging; I particularly liked the sentence, “Poodles,…
No Vacation From Climate Change
I noticed the "vacancy" signs first. Two motels, three motels, five, ten, twenty. Their parking lots empty, the swimming pools undisturbed, the hopeful ice machines churning out cubes for guests who never came. This, at the height of the tourist season. Was it the still-sluggish economy? Steep…
Climate Smart & Energy Wise (Part 0)
It's down to the wire as I complete the proofs of my upcoming book, Climate Smart & Energy Wise, which Corwin Press will release around the autumnal equinox, September 23—one of two times in the year when day and night are roughly balanced at 50/50—and which also happens to be during…
A glimpse of What's the Worst that Could Happen?
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Greg Craven's What's the Worst that Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate (Perigee, 2009). The preview consists of chapter 1, "The Decision Grid: What's the Worst that Could Happen? (Or Giant Mutant Space Hamsters…

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