Science Is Constantly Evolving
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When NCSE started its climate change program just over two years ago, we encountered a lot of skepticism–but not from the usual suspects. We expected the climate change denial folks to argue that there was limited science behind climate change, so how could we advocate teaching of it? We also…
NCSE is pleased to welcome Stephanie Keep as the new editor of its journal Reports of the National Center for Science Education. She succeeds Andrew J. Petto, who is retiring from the post after nearly twenty years of service. "I'm thrilled to become part of NCSE's team working to…
Biblical fundamentalists and their opponents on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum of belief often share one significant assumption: in order to contribute to modern science you have to be an atheist. That is, you cannot at the same time believe in a personal God and accept the scientific…
It is a credit to the professionalism of the staff at the California State Library in Sacramento that my request for a bound volume of the journal The Mariner’s Mirror from 1975—a request, I’m willing to wager, unique in their experience—raised not a single eyebrow. Had they asked,…
Last week I received an invitation from the White House to attend the launch of the National Climate Assessment on May 6th. After checking my busy schedule to see if there were any pressing conflicts (there were oddly none), and getting Secret Service clearance (I passed—phew!), I now find…
NCSE's Mark McCaffrey will be discussing the educational use of the third National Climate Assessment at a panel in the White House on May 6, 2014. The panel will be streamed live from the White House between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. (Eastern) on May 6, 2014; McCaffrey’s presentation will take…
Photo Credit: Scott..? via Compfight cc Last week on Fossil Friday, I introduced you to what I thought would be an easily identified fossil! It's one that everyone knows and most people love, so I tried to make it tricky by supplying as little information as possible. Maybe too little! No one…
I recently wrote a review of New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and had a chance to chat with Kolbert about the book for about half an hour. The bulk of the interview, covering de-extinction and conservation planning and how…
On slow and rainy days over at the paleontology museum, I often slip into the back archives to poke around. Opening drawers can be a mystery in itself—will I find myself diving into a cabinet full of marsupial teeth, camelops bone fragments, T. rex toes? The fossil for this week is…