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“As Bill Nye Would Say…”
I encountered a familiar name in a surprising context recently. I was leafing through The War on Modern Science (1927), Maynard Shipley’s review of the recent fights over the teaching of evolution in the United States. In the chapter on “Mississippi’s Humiliation,” recounting the…
A Meal Worse Than Lobster
The title of this post might confuse you, unless you remember how I have a deep-seated phobia of people eating invertebrates, especially lobsters and crabs. Whenever king crab legs are on sale at the grocery store, my family goes without meat for the week because I can’t be within 5 meters of the…
Harold Morowitz dies
Harold Morowitz The eminent biophysicist Harold Morowitz died on March 22, 2016, at the age of 88. Morowitz, according to the obituary in The New York Times (April 1, 2016), "was best known for applying thermodynamic theory to biology, exploring how 'the energy that…
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2016
Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Reservations are still available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven. From June 30 to July 8, 2016, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run…
Answer Monday
    If—like Dan Coleman and Dan Phelps—you thought that these tiny fossils were foraminifera, you’re a better paleontologist than I am. When I received the photograph, it was accompanied by a separate identification of the fossils as Spirifer verneuili, a brachiopod now…
What We're Reading
A bunch of NCSE's staff spent the week reading the National Science Teachers Association conference program, since we'll be exhibiting and presenting at the national conference through the weekend. But that didn't put a crimp in our weekly reading. “Science Education Is Woefully Uncreative:…
Fossil Friday
    From the Devonian limestone of Belgium they came! What tiny fossils are collected here? A hint to reward you for reading my non-Fossil Friday posts: the person who originally described the species was once called “Roredick” by a Scopes-era creationist. If you think you know the…
The Mask Slips In Louisiana
State Senator Dan Claitor (R–District 16) is leading an effort in Louisiana to repeal various outdated laws on its books. In a recent report on these efforts, there’s an interesting comment from radical cleric Gene Mills. In both the online and print editions of the Baton Rouge Advocate,…
Ask The Next President About Science
Say what you will about the 2016 elections (and as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, we at NCSE can’t say much), in the end, one of the participants in the unceasing debates will presumably be our next president. And regardless of who you’d like to see win, I think we can all agree that the next president will…

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