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Did Robert E. Lee Come from an Ape?
If you're a Civil War buff at all, even in a minor way, right now is not a good time to complain that you don't have any sesquicentennials to celebrate. The Battle of Gettysburg—the bloodiest encounter of the war, at least in terms of total casualties, and arguably the turning point of the war…
How I Spent my Summer Vacation
As students around the country return to school in the coming weeks, many will be asked to write an essay on a familiar theme: how I spent my summer vacation. Many will have stories of riding waves off the coast of sandy beaches, others will have epic tales of harassing siblings while their…
Santorum on "The Newsroom"
It's always a thrill to see a major TV drama take a detailed swipe at topics like creationism or climate change denial, and I was especially excited to see the lengthy discussion in last night's episode of The Newsroom. In an interview based on the real candidate Santorum's…
The Science League of America Debuts!
NCSE launches its first blog It was worth the wait. After pondering the pros and cons of this newfangled "Internet" thing, NCSE has launched the Science League of America—our blog dedicated to defending the teaching of evolution and climate change. The blog is at www.ncse.com/blog NCSE…
John D. Morris, Evolutionary Creationist
So I’m browsing in the August 9 issue of The Week, and see an article “Legal rights for apes”. Interesting topic. We share 95+% of our genes with chimps and gorillas, and the behavioral differences between us and them seem all quantitative: we are distinct from them only in having …
Welcome to the Science League of America
In August of 1924, Maynard Shipley—a science communicator and formerly a shoe salesman, music teacher, and criminologist—feared a creationist onslaught. A year before the Scopes monkey trial, Shipley saw that antievolutionists like William Jennings Bryan "have started their campaign against the…
Runaway Climate
A recent article in Nature Geoscience, “Low simulated radiation limit for runaway greenhouse climates,” raises some unsettling concerns. While almost everyone knows CO2 is a greenhouse gas, fewer people realize that water vapor is also a powerful absorber of infrared radiation. But while CO2 can…
NCSE launches "Science League of America" blog
NCSE is pleased to announce the launch of its new blog, Science League of America. Its title, as Josh Rosenau discloses in his welcome post, is taken from the Science League of America, a proto-NCSE run by the polymath Maynard Shipley in the 1920s. "We can think of no better way to honor Shipley…
"Elephant in the Room" by Banksy.
"Elephant in the Room" by Banksy.
The Elephant in the Climate Change Classroom

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