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Answer Monday!
Last week on Fossil Friday, I presented you with a tooth from a sea animal. What is it? I asked. Where is it from? Many of you were quick to identify it as a shark tooth, but Dr. GS Hurd was the first to get the species right: Otodus obliquus. From the Australian Museum…
Cosmos Trek, Episode VII: The Clean Room on the Edge of Forever
In last Sunday's Cosmos episode, “The Clean Room,” Neil deGrasse Tyson gave one of the most detailed and compelling explanations of how we know the age of the Earth. This predictably made some creationists grumpy. The age of the Earth is an issue that divides creationists into…
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Fossil Friday!
Today in Oakland we actually got hit by what is becoming a rare occurrence around here—rain. The streets are flooded, my garden is blooming, and people are running through the streets screaming "I'm melting! I'm melting!"...Californians, you know? So in the spirit of feeling underwater, I…
Cosmos Wars Episode VII: Heir to the Denialist Empire
THERE’S TOO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT LAST SUNDAY'S EPISODE OF COSMOS. Steve Newton and I have shared Cosmos reviewing duties, and this week Neil deGrasse Tyson and his team served us an overflowing plate. We’re both Grand Canyon nerds (and we’ll be staffing NCSE’s annual rafting trip…
Climate Education: For What It's Worth
When esteemed experts question the value of education in addressing climate change–which  happened to me again last week at Stanford–I’m initially surprised. But then I remind myself that, while they may be experts in their realm, they don't necessarily appreciate the worth of providing young…
Science Defender in Training
Back left: Glenn Branch, Ann Reid, Bill Nye, Genie ScottFront left: Joshua Rosenau, Minda Berbeco, Lindsay Miller What's it like to intern with the National Center for Science Education? Lindsay Miller, a current NCSE intern and undergraduate student at Northwestern University, shares her…
What If? World War I and the Creationism-Evolution Controversy, Part 6
How would the creationism-evolution controversy have been different if World War I had never happened? Today the question is answered by Ulrich Kutschera, Professor of Plant Physiology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kassel. Long involved in efforts to defend the teaching of…
If Lomborg is the Answer, The Question’s Not Worth Asking
Over at the Discovery Institute, Senior Fellow Wesley Smith writes that “cruel” environmentalists “want to keep the world’s destitute in squalor” by delaying improvements in the developing world. In this supposed “war on humans,” improvements such as electrification will just have to wait until…

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