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A Horse is a Horse, Of Course Of Course…As Long As You Know What A Horse Is: Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog, I explained the origin of a modern textbook taboo: diagrams that suggest a unidirectional and linear evolution of horses. These justly criticized illustrations give the impression that through a series of progressive changes, horses evolved to their current, perfected form…
All Along the (Climate) Watchtower
The Jehovah's Witnesses visit me once a year. They politely try to convert me; I politely turn down the offer. They leave me a colorful pamphlet which I never read and that's that. Until today. As I thumbed through the latest issue of The Watchtower, I was struck dumb. (I'm…
The Dating of the Cherry, Part 1
Recently, a creationist blog attributed a particular argument against design to David Hume, so I took a copy of his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) from the shelf to check. Surprise, surprise: it wasn’t there. But I’m not going to bother to debunk the misattribution; it’s…
Answer Monday!
Photo Credit: RobW_ via Compfight cc Last week I told you to take it slow on identifying this fossil. As we all know, slow and steady wins the race, or in our case, comes up with the right answer!  So what was it?  Well, it wasn’t a prehistoric jack rabbit, that is for sure. It was an…
A Horse is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course…As Long As You Know What a Horse Is: Part 1
Next week, I’m going to get back to actual misconceptions for Misconception Monday posts, I promise—but I am a “completer-finisher,” according to some workplace personality test I once took, so I need to round out this trio. Last stop on my mini-tour of you-can’t-show-that-in-textbooks-anymore…
Climate Smart & Energy Wise (Part 7)
Denial: a big word loaded with emotion. But, like many things in life, denial is a continuum: from full blown outright dismissal to more subtle avoidance, like looking the other way.  One reason why there is such a climate of confusion about climate change in the United States is that a…
Fossil Friday!
This week on the Fossil Friday, I’m going to encourage you to take your time on this fossil, because as we all know, slow and steady wins the race, and the person who races to answer on Fossil Friday isn’t always right… Coming to you from Sweetwater County, Wyoming, dating to the…
JREF award for NCSE's Scott
Eugenie C. Scott Eugenie C. Scott, the former executive director of NCSE and the present chair of NCSE's Advisory Council, received the James Randi Educational Foundation's Award for Skepticism in the Public Interest at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 12, 2014…
Well Said! Carl Zimmer and the Persistence of Whale Hip Bones
I love whales. My undergraduate thesis was on whales, specifically the evolution of their vertebral column. I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time in the bowels of the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History (not to mention days and days and days underground in a converted…

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