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As a few commenters were quick to guess yesterday, a subcommittee of the Kentucky legislature did indeed vote to block adoption of Next Generation Science Standards. On a 5-1 vote, the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee sought to overrule the Kentucky Board of Education. The…
When Joylette Portlock first started DoSomethingAboutClimate.com with her husband last year, she said that she had a “personal desire to do something impactful.” Since then, this Stanford PhD has developed a witty video series about climate change, rooted in the science with…
Each year the cities of Berkeley and Albany, California, host the Solano Avenue Stroll, “the East Bay’s largest street festival”. A 26-block stretch of Solano Avenue is closed off and reportedly more than a hundred thousand visitors attend, wandering among “…over five hundred vendors including…
In August, Nature published a brief review (subscription required) by me of P. Z. Myers’s collection of essays The Happy Atheist (2013). Describing the review, I think fairly, as “decidedly mixed,” Jerry Coyne recently took exception to the following sentence from it: “For…
Today (10 September) is Stephen Jay Gould's birthday. He would have been 72. SJG was an inspiration to many, and especially to me; my fascination with geology was spurred, in no small part, by his writings. With his untimely passing, we lost a great scientist and a great science…
Last week on Fossil Friday, I posted a picture of a tibia from the Cretaceous. My question was: who does this tibia belong to? There were a lot of good guesses. (A titanosaur was definitely my favorite.) But the correct answer came from hubcap747 (good…
When I started work at the National Center for Science Education six years ago, I was known as "the new Nick." Nick Matzke was heading off to grad school in evolutionary biology after a productive tenure at NCSE. I had big shoes to fill. In his time at NCSE, Nick’s work refuting creationists had…
Growing up in Colorado, whose tagline adorns the signs at the state line—Welcome to Colorful Colorado!—we were proud that the words of the song America the Beautiful were written by Katharine Lee Bates, who spent the summer of 1893 teaching at Colorado College and was poetically inspired…
Last week’s Fossil Friday was way too easy, so this week I’ve made things a little trickier. This is a tibia from the Cretaceous, but... What animal did it belong to? First one to guess it wins bragging rights for the week. Answer on Monday, of course…