Science Is Constantly Evolving
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What do you do when you learn that an ally is a science denier? This is the fascinating problem our team faced last week, as we prepared for our “Corridor to the Stars” fundraiser. Claire Tucci, the UIowa graduate student who organized the event, came with me to visit the observatory for the first…
This past month I’ve slept terribly and it’s all because of the Big Bang. You see I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with Brian Kruse over at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific on a teacher workshop about the Big Bang this week (and again at NSTA next month). Why is NCSE interested…
As I anticipated, you guys jumped all over this one. Congratulations to Dan Coleman, who got it right in about 0.3 picoseconds. What is it? Edaphosaurus boanerges! Edaphosaurus is a member of the group too often called the “mammal-like reptiles.” I’m not a fan of that phrase…
Just a few choice reads this weekend because I know you’ll all be busy watching the Super Bowl L festivities. Wait, you don’t know what that is? It’s a football game—football, it turns out, is quite popular in the U.S. This is the last football game of the year and it’s being played right here in…
I’m not going to lie, guys: I’m still feeling pretty smug about stumping you all last week. Will I be able to do it again? I rather doubt it. Surely you’ll recognize this creature. It’s the next stop on my tour of awesome backbones. If you know what it is and leave the first comment identifying it…
Carelessness, thy name is T. T. Martin. Martin (1862–1939) was, as you’ll recall, the Mississippi evangelist described by Ronald L. Numbers in The Creationists (1992) as “among the earliest and most outspoken critics of evolution…an itinerant evangelist with a reputation for combining…
Andrew Sherwood Senate Resolution 1001, introduced in the Arizona Senate on February 2, 2016, would, if enacted, express the Senate's recognition of February 12, 2016, as International Darwin Day. The resolution acknowledges the 207th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth,…
Last week, I told you that you’d all recognize this specimen once I told you what it was, and I stand by that. Meet Deinonychus. You don’t recognize the name? Or the skull? Well, do you recognize this foot? Or this movie star? But wait! That’s Velociraptor, you say? In the…
Sean B. Carroll NCSE is pleased to congratulate Sean B. Carroll, a member of NCSE's Advisory Council and a recipient of NCSE's Friend of Darwin award, on winning the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. Carroll's books include Endless Forms Most Beautiful…