Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Last week on Fossil Friday, I told you nothing! Was it an animal, vegetable, or mineral? I asked. Was this even a fossil from a living creature or a drip of sloth snot? You had to tell me what genus it came from and whether we could find something similar today. And it was….a needle…
Proposed social studies textbooks get climate change wrong, distort facts, deny science CONTACTS: Robert Luhn, NCSE, 510/601-7203 Dan Quinn, TFN, 512/322-0545 Lisa Hoyos, Climate Parents, 510/282-0440 The results are in! Over 24,000 Texans, together with parents and education supporters…
Within the climate communication community, blaming the messenger—climate scientists—for the lack of progress on climate action has been almost as popular as blaming deniers for interfering with the message. “If only climate scientists were better communicators,” the lament goes, “then we’d see…
Over 24,000 Texans have signed petitions calling on the Texas board of education to require the correction of errors in the coverage of climate change in social studies textbooks presently under consideration. As NCSE previously reported, among the problematic claims are a statement…
A few weeks ago in Misconception Monday, I discussed the all-too-common misunderstanding that individuals evolve. As part of that piece, I attempted to explain why “descent with modification” is a better definition for evolution than the old standard “change over time.” The key point was that…
For this week’s Fossil Friday, I’ll tell you nothing. Not where this fossil came from, what time period, or even the phylum. Is it a worm? A trace fossil? Or did something just sneeze on a rock a million years ago? You tell me! What genus did this come from? Was it an animal, vegetable, or…
The National Center for Science Education is pleased to accept applications for its inaugural class of Grand Canyon Teacher Scholars. Lucky teachers will be given an all-expenses-paid seat on NCSE's annual Grand Canyon expedition, an eight-day voyage through some of the world's greatest…
It’s October, so it’s Nobel prize season. Last week the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to John O’Keefe, and Edvard and May-Britt Moser for their work on how the brain figures out where you are. Journalists have been calling it your “inner GPS system.” The Physics prize was…
Yes, it’s true: I really ordered a used copy of a Hungarian play, Ferenc Herczeg’s Majomszínház (1925, although what I ordered was volume 11 of his selected works, also containing Árva László Király, published in 1934) from a used bookstore in Szeged, Hungary. (Köszönöm a…