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Episode #2 of PBS’s Your Inner Fish—entitled “Your Inner Reptile”—comes complete with silly shots of people with scaly skin and snaky tongues. The slow-mo shots of leaping bikini-clad women tipped me off that the producers were mostly men. Fortunately for all of us, such…
This week on Fossil Friday, I give you an incredibly easily identified fossil. I mean, come on, it's the whole body! Plus, I'm going to tell you it's a synapsid from the Permian. What could be easier? But I do have some additional demands. You must tell me not only what species this…
How would the creationism-evolution controversy have been different if World War I had never happened? Today the question is answered by Abraham “Ab” C. Flipse, a historian of science at and the university historian of VU University Amsterdam, whose recent research focuses on the creationism-…
A year and a half ago when I heard about a new Showtime series about human contributions to changing climate—Years of Living Dangerously—which aired its first episode this past week, my first thought was the classic 1982 Peter Weir film The Year of Living Dangerously. A young…
How would the creationism-evolution controversy have been different if World War I had never happened? Today the question is answered by Adam Shapiro, Lecturer in Intellectual and Cultural History at Birkbeck, University of London, and author of Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial,…
The Association for Science Teacher Education, which promotes leadership and support for professionals involved in the education and development of teachers of science at all levels, recently added its voice for evolution. In its position statement on teaching biological evolution, ASTE expresses…
Photo Credit: brianbrarian via Compfight cc Last week on Fossil Friday, I showed you one of the most important fossils of all time. Though you were all quick to identify it as Tiktaalik roseae, aka the "fishapod," Britton got it first. Tiktaalik was first…
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool…
The center of the universe might be closer than you think—in fact, it might be right under your feet. A conservative Catholic crank, Robert Sungenis, is now resurrecting the long-discredited geocentric model in a bizarre movie called The Principle. Geocentrism is the idea that the Earth…