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How Do We Talk about Climate Change?
I am not the average American. It isn't that I needed the most recent report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication to tell me that. But the results of their survey of how Americans communicate about…
NCSE's Scott profiled in The New York Times
Eugenie C. Scott NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was profiled in the September 3, 2013, issue of The New York Times. Scott, the Times reported, "is nearing the end of a 27-year stint as executive director of the National Center for Science Education, which despite a…
Fossil Friday, Monday Answer!
  Last week, on Fossil Friday, I posted a picture of one of my favorite fossils.  This one is not unique; it is one of the most common fossils found across the world and as a result it is wildly popular.  You can find them in most paleontology collections, natural history museum…
Fossil Friday!
  This week on Fossil Friday, I bring you my favorite fossil.  Found all over the world, these carnivorous invertebrates went extinct 65 million years ago. They are one of the most abundant fossils found today. What are these organisms and who are their modern relatives?…
Happy 89th Anniversary!
It seems like just yesterday, doesn’t it? But today, August 29, 2013, is the 89th anniversary of the Science League of America. The original Science League of America, of course, not the blog. When Maynard Shipley was giving a talk on evolution in San Francisco on August 29, 1924, he asked those…
A Fond Farewell to Judy Scotchmoor
Wednesday night was retirement celebration night for NCSE friend Judy Scotchmoor at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. The education director (or to give her full title, Assistant Director for Outreach and Education) at UCMP for decades, Judy has made UCMP a model for academic…
Polling climate in the UK
A new poll commissioned by Carbon Brief investigates public opinion about climate change in the United Kingdom. Given the choice of three claims about the occurrence of climate change, 56% of respondents preferred "Climate change is happening and is mostly caused by humans," 37% preferred "…
Doing the Math
UPDATE: Exxon Mobil is one of the signatories of a document from the business community supporting the Next Generation Science Standards, which include climate change and human impacts on the environment as integral components. -MM As glaciers around the world, including the…
Triple Play: Larkin to Housman to Romanes
Don’t ask why, but I was reading Philip Larkin’s Required Writing over the weekend. As the title jokingly suggests, it’s a collection of pieces “produced on request,” as Larkin explains in his preface. Larkin, of course, is the English poet and novelist famous for his glum lyricism;…

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