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RNCSE 33:3 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 3 — features Robert J. Raikow and Radmila Raikow's article "Transitional Forms" and Courtney St. John's "Climate Change Adaptation:…
"Climate science is core to science education"
The American Meteorological Society, in a policy statement adopted on May 23, 2013, affirmed the importance of climate science to science education. The AMS criticized attempts to undermine the teaching of climate change "by those seeking to frame it as somehow different from other scientific…
A glimpse of The Dawn of the Deed
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of John A. Long's The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2012). The preview consists of chapter 8, "At the Dawn of Archaic Sex," in which Long asks, "So when and why did organisms first start reproducing by…
NCSE's Scott honored by Chapman University
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Chapman University in recognition of her "work ... in advancing the public understanding and acceptance of evolution." She accepted the honor, and gave a commencement…
Quantifying the consensus on climate
A new study of the scientific literature confirms that there is a robust consensus that humans are causing global warming. The paper — John Cook, Dana Nuccitelli, Sarah A. Green, Mark Richardson, Bärbel Winkler, Rob Painting, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs, and Andrew Skuce's "Quantifying the…
Nature's tribute to NCSE
Prompted by the announced impending retirement of NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott, the journal Nature devoted its May 15, 2013, editorial column to applauding NCSE's work. "The scientific community has much to learn from her example in the fight against pseudoscience," the editorial…
Mark Perakh dies
Mark PerakhThe physicist Mark Perakh, a notable critic of creationism, died on May 7, 2013, at the age of 88, according to The Panda's Thumb blog (May 12, 2013). After a distinguished academic career in three countries, Perakh turned, in his retirement, to investigating the claims…
Polling Muslims on evolution
A new report discussing a poll of Muslims around the globe suggests (PDF, p. 132) that "[m]any Muslims around the world believe in evolution." Specifically, the report, entitled "The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society," explains, "[i]n 13 of the 22 countries where the question was…
A preview of Evolution vs. Creationism
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Eugenie C. Scott's Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, second edition (Greenwood Press/University of California Press, 2009) in honor of her impending retirement as NCSE's executive director. The preview consists of chapter 2, "Evolution,"…

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