Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Fossil Friday!
This week on Fossil Friday, I bring you the world's largest turkey leg! Well, no, not really, though the animal once attached could have tasted like chicken. This came from a pretty well-known dinosaur from the Jurassic, so I will give you no clues. What is this fossil and what animal is it…
NCSE's next webinar for activists
NCSE is pleased to announce the next of a new series of on-line workshops aimed at broadening and deepening the networks that make our work possible. The next workshop focuses on on-line petitions as a tool in science education advocacy, with advice about how to write, promote, and use such…
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
I don’t know who put it on the Netflix queue, but a copy of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) arrived in my mailbox recently. That, of course, is the mockumentary starring Sacha Baron Cohen as the eponymous Borat Sagdiyev, a Kazakh…
Changyuraptor: Gliding into a Classroom Near You?
Here we go again… Fossil suggests flight was common among bird-like dinosaurs Tail feathers suggest new dinosaur may have taken flight Dinosaurs could fly before birds? That’s no bird: This "four-winged" dinosaur looked like an airplane Don’t get me wrong; I love it when fossils make the…
Scientific Integrity: Please SBoRE Me with the Details
Many years ago, I moved to Paris with only high school French to sustain me. Parisians have a reputation for—shall we say—brusqueness, and I had no shortage of embarrassing encounters that I interpreted as scorn for my weak French and wretchedly obvious American-ness. Over time as my French…
Albert Einstein’s Voice for Evolution
I mentioned recently that I was rereading Ray Ginger’s Six Days or Forever? Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (1958) in order to prepare for a talk about the Scopes trial. While doing so, I took notes about more than just the ornate vocabulary, which I discussed in “A Ginger Glossary” (…
Answer Monday!
This past week on Fossil Friday, I gave you a stack of fossils all the way from Danville, Kentucky! What were they? It was a couple of Cystaster stellatus on a Rafinesquina alternata brachiopod dating from the Upper Ordovician. The C. stellatus are an extinct…
Misconception Monday: Everything is an Adaptation, Part 2
Last week, I discussed the misconception that everything is adaptive. This week, I want to talk about ways we can help our students see and appreciate the wonder of life without their adaptation-everywhere goggles on. At the younger grades, I’d simply try to watch how I present characteristics…
Polling climate around the world
A new report from Ipsos MORI includes data on public opinion about the causes of climate change from twenty nations — and the United States led the world in the rate of climate change denial, as assessed by answers to two questions. The United States and India were tied, at 52%, for agreement…

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