Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
A recent article in The New Yorker exposed some interesting aspects about why educational “reforms” often fail. Highlighting the efforts of a Bay Area private school system started by a former tech executive, the author, Rebecca Mead, gets into great detail of how the “disruption”…
There are a lot of reasons why I love funding teacher requests. The purpose of NCSE's Science Booster Club Project is fundraising as much as it is outreach, and the purpose of the fundraising is to support teachers. Although we’ve recently received requests for professional development…
Climate science is depressing. Not gonna lie, sometimes after a day spent teaching hundreds of people how screwed we are, I feel pretty bummed out. You have to admit, the best case scenarios- the ones where we make a huge effort all together towards a sustainable future, the ones that require…
Climate science is depressing. Not gonna lie. Sometimes after a day spent teaching hundreds of people how screwed we are, I feel pretty bummed out. You have to admit, the best case scenarios—the ones where we all make a huge effort towards a sustainable future, the ones that require major policy…
It’s a conulariid—according to Dan Phelps, genus Paraconularia, but at any rate a conulariid! What the heck is a conulariid? According to Heyo Van Iten and Zdenka Vyhlasová, “Conulariids are an extinct group of benthic marine cnidarians the extant nearest relatives of which are the…
And the winner, by universal acclaim, was the story of Inky, the Houdini of octopuses, who escaped his aquarium in New Zealand and found his way back to the ocean. Is it possible that this story was so popular in the U.S. because we all yearn for a way to escape the endless presidential primary…
From the wheat penny provided for scale, the Fossil Friday Irregulars will instantly infer that the photograph was provided by Dan Phelps and surmise, moreover, that the fossil was found in Kentucky. Absolutely. If I add a little jargon about its provenance—that it was found in a phosphatic…
Do you remember the megachurch pastor and religious broadcaster D. James Kennedy (1930–2007)? He was a busy guy, but he found the time to preach against evolution, promoting both young-earth creationism (he was the honorary chair of Answers in Genesis’s Creation “Museum”) and “intelligent design…
A controversy is smoldering over the distribution of a creationist book to schools in Poland. According to Gazeta Wyborcza (March 2, 2016), unsolicited copies of Maciej Giertych's Ewolucja, Dewolucja, Nauka (Evolution, Devolution, Science) were sent to the biology…