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Fossil Friday Starts Now!
Earlier this week, I told you about my summer vacation adventures to North Carolina where the houses are built high above the seashore for some mysterious reason (that has nothing to do with sea levels or storm surge). But lest you think I spent the entire time at the beach, wallowing away…
Jimmy's Good Idea
On a vacation trip, I had a morning to kill in Atlanta before catching my plane, and a friend suggested we visit the Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum. Sounded good. I always admired Carter, and even many of his detractors admit he is one of the most admirable past-presidents, spending his time on…
Museums and “Museums” in the Ohio Valley
Back in June 2013, a low-level employee of the Cincinnati Museum Center was reprimanded for publicly scoffing at Answers in Genesis’s Creation “Museum”—across the Ohio River from Cincinnati—and complaining that it isn’t a proper museum at all. Well, it’s understandable that the higher-ups at the…
Fear, Denial, Acceptance
Yotam Maron, writing in YES! magazine, has a frank and interesting piece describing his own resistance to accepting climate change. It is hard for many scientists to understand why so many citizens resist understanding the reality of climate change. If you’re a scientist and want to know more…
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 …

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