Science Is Constantly Evolving
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I don’t spend every weekend immersed in a book; really I don’t. But as it happens, I started reading Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (2013) over the weekend. I was prompted to do so largely by the historian Richard J. Evans’s description of it in the London…
I’m a new transplant to California, having moved to the Golden State from Colorado nearly two circles around the Sun ago, but with a slew of good news on the climate front, it’s felt really great to be a Californian of late. Today there was an e-mail with the subject line “Californians lead the…
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…