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RNCSE 33:5 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue — volume 33, number 5 — features Steven Newton's "Reflections on Human Odyssey: The California Academy of Science's New Human Evolution Exhibit and Tim…
Fun with Kiwis
If you’re interested in making fun of creationism, it’s not too hard to do it. Indeed, there have even been a few book-length efforts, such as Robert S. Dietz and John C. Holden’s Creation/Evolution Satiricon: Creationism Bashed (1987) and Barrett Brown and Jon…
Congratulations to Randy W. Schekman
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Randy W. Schekman for receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Along with James E. Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof, Schekman was honored for his work on "the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system." According to a press release…
Answer Monday!
Last week on Fossil Friday, I showed you a skull that our house anthropologist, Eric Meikle, called  "one of the four most historically significant discoveries in the human fossil record" (in his humble opinion). There were a few false starts from readers: Neandertal, Australopithecus…
Genesis 3D: "Let there be lights, camera, action!"
You may have run across the trailer for the Genesis 3D movie, a forthcoming cinematic piece produced by, among others, young earth creationist Eric Hovind, son of Kent “Dr. Dino” Hovind (currently serving prison time on tax charges).  The movie will be “a depiction of the Bible’s…
Shutting Down Science Education
Since the start of the government shutdown, my Facebook feed has been filled with nothing but politics. Everyone has an opinion about what is going on and who is responsible. This response was of course expected, but what surprised me was that almost immediately, intertwined with the political…
Fossil Friday!
  Today on Fossil Friday, we are starting our month long lead up to the Day of the Dead. This whole month it'll be skulls, skulls and more skulls! Eric Meikle, one of our in-house anthropologists, tells me that this skull will be easy for anyone with a background in human evolution or…
NCSE's Branch in GeneWatch
NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch contributed "Bad Science: Genetics, as Misread by Creationism" to GeneWatch (pp. 29-30), the magazine of the Council for Responsible Genetics. "[R]elying on a general trust in genetics and a general ignorance of, skepticism about, or hostility toward evolution,…
A second glimpse of The Tangled Bank
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of the second edition of Carl Zimmer's The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (Roberts and Company, 2013). The preview consists of the first few pages of chapter 14, "A New Kind of Ape," in which Zimmer presents "the latest consensus about…

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